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  Flavio Poli for Seguso Large Murano Glass Bottle with Stopper c.1950’s

  FLAVIO POLI (1900-1984) Italy
  SEGUSO VETRI D’ARTE Italy

  Bottle with stopper c. 1950’s

  Spectacular large decanter or bottle with stopper with a golden cognac cased glass interior tear drop form suspended in a solid clear glass body by FLAVIO POLI (1900-1984) Italy for SEGUSO VETRI D’ARTE Italy

  H: 16 1/2″

  Price: $4,200

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  Christopher Dresser / Linthorpe, Rare Aesthetic Movement Persian jug 1879

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK
  LINTHORPE ART POTTERY, Middlesbrough
  HENRY TOOTH Artistic Manager Linthorpe (1842-1918) UK

  “Persian” jug 1879-1882

  Glazed earthenware

  Marks: LINTHORPE, Chr. Dresser (facsimile signature),
  HT, no. 344

  Illustrated: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhibition catalogue Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 76.

  H: 8 3/4″

  Rare model.

  The contrasts in Dresser’s designs for different materials showed how his approach to design was also shaped by the properties and nature of a material. In 1879 Dresser was appointed art director at the newly established Linthorpe pottery, near Middlesbrough. Founded by John Harrison, a local businessman, the pottery’s aim was to use local clay to provide jobs for local men. Dresser’s design for the moulds for the pottery were inspired by a wide range of cultures from Japan, Peru, Mexico, Morocco and Ancient British forms. These very striking pieces, with the metal oxides in the complex and innovative glazes providing the only decoration. All of his designs were impressed with a facsimile signature. When Linthorpe closed in 1889, its moulds were acquired by a rival, Ault Pottery in Derbyshire. In 1893, Dresser signed a contract with Ault for new designs specifying that each pot should be marked with his facsimile signature.

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  Christopher Dresser / James Dixon & Sons Sterling silver teaset, No. 2272 1880

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK

  JAMES DIXON & SONS Sheffield, England

  Teaset  1880

  Sterling silver

  Marks: JD&S, Chr. Dresser (facsimile signature), 2272,

  Sheffield assay marks for 1880 (“P” in an octagonal rectangle), Reg. mark for November 25, 1880

  Illustrated: J. Dixon & Sons’ 1885 catalogue, p. 96.

  Teapot illustrated: Christopher Dresser, by Widar Halén (Oxford: Phaidon, 1990), illus. 204, p. 181.

  Teaset illustrated: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 30/31.

  Teapot: H: 4” x W: 7 ¼” ; Sugar bowl: H: 2 3/4” ; Creamer: H: 3 1/8”

  Plated teapot in the permanent collection of the British Museum, London. Extremely rare model.

   

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  Fontana Arte Italian, Mid-Century Glass “Fruit” Bookends, circa 1950

  FONTANA ARTE   Milan, Italy

  “Glass fruit” bookends   c. 1950

  Glass, chromium-plated brass

  For more information see: Fontana Arte, Una storia Trasparente, Laura Falconi (Milan: Skira, 1998).

  H:  5” x W:  3 3/8” x D:  5”

  Price: $3,500