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  Christopher Dresser / James Dixon & Sons “Gothic Arch” toast rack c.1881

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER  (1834-1904)  UK
  JAMES DIXON & SONS Sheffield, England

  “Gothic Arch” toast rack c.1881

  Silver-plate

  Marks: JD&S (stamped), EP, #72, “D”

  Drawing illustrated: Christopher Dresser’s 1881 design and account book

  For more information see: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998); Charles Handley-Read, “High Victorian Design:  An Illustrated Commentary” in ‘Design 1860-1960’ sixth conference report of the Victorian Society (London, 1968); Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art: The Handley-Read Collection, ed. Simon Jervis (London:  Diploma Galleries,1972); Christopher Dresser:  pottery, glass, metalwork, (London:  The Fine Arts Society Ltd., 1972); Isabelle Anscombe & Charlotte Gere, Arts & Crafts in Britain and America (New York:  Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1978); Truth, Beauty and Design, Victorian, Edwardian and later Decorative Art (London:  Fischer Fine Art Limited),; A Thing of Beauty:  Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Arts & Crafts Movement and Aesthetic Movement Objects in Atlanta Collections (Atlanta, GA:  The High Museum of Art, 1980), cat. no. M2; Widar Halén, Christopher Dresser (Oxford: Phaidon, 1990),; Judy Rudoe, Decorative Arts 1850-1950:  A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1991),; Gerda Breuer, Von Morris bis Mackintosh – Reformbewegung zwischen Kunstgewerbe und Sozialutopie,  Arts and Crafts (Darmstadt: Institut Mathildenhöhe, 1994/95); “The Silver Designs of Dr. Christopher Dresser,” Shirley Bury, Apollo (December, 1962)

  H: 6″ x D: 4 1/8″ x W: 4 5/8″

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  Christopher Dresser / Minton Aesthetic Movement Cloisonné Vase 1867

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK
  MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, England

  “Cloisonné” vase 1867

  Glazed porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration and gilding

  Marks: MINTON, date cipher for 1867

  Illustration: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhibition catalogue, Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 78.

  H: 9 7/8”

   

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  Tsuchida Yasuhiko, Art Glass Mosaic Vase 1999

  Tsuchida Yasuhiko  (b. 1969) Osaka, Japan/ Italy

  Art glass mosaic technique vase   1999

  Overall matte finish art glass vase with an elaborate mosaic technique inset with red rectangular patchwork sections and blue murrina jewels all on a chocolate brown body with a black glass foot

  Marks: Tsuchida Yasuhiko 99, 77

  For more information see: Tsuchida Yasuhiko, exh. cat., Franco Schiavon (Murano, Italy: Palazzo del Vetro, 2000).

  Provenance: Pauly & Co. Venice

  H: 4 3/4″ x Dia: 5 1/8″

  Price: $5,450

  Yasuhiko Tsuchida was born in Osaka, Japan in 1969. In 1988, soon after graduating TSUJI Culinary Institute, he left Japan to explore food and art in Paris. Since 1992, he has lived in Venice, Italy. Tsuchida has been making glass work in Murano Island since 1995, and next year assumed the office of art director at Schiavone Glass Co. Ltd. In 1996 he presented a glass sculpture entitled “Bamboo Collection”
  with Japanese motif of bamboo. The work was highly acclaimed, which gave him a chance to start to hold solo exhibitions around the world. In 2000, Tsuchida became a member of the board of directors at Venetian Glass Institute, and a chief director there in 2003. In 2004, he won Honorary Technique Prize in Düsseldorf, Germany, and in 2008, received Award of Contribution to Cultural
  Promotion from Grosseto city, Toscana. In the same year, he
  represented Japan at International Open Exhibition of Sculpture, and won the Grand-Prix. In 2010, Tsuchida was invited to the Issei Miyake “IM10” Project Competition, and held a solo exhibition at Lorusso Gallery, Andria, Italy. Tsuchida continues to exhibit in many solo shows around the world.

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  Christopher Dresser / Heath & Middleton Petite claret jug 1887

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK

  HEATH & MIDDLETON   Birmingham, England

  Petite claret jug   1887

  Sterling silver mounts with hinged covers to both top and spout, glass, ebony handle

  Marks: JTH & JHM in a four-lobed cartouche, London assay marks for 1887 (“M” in a shield), Vienna import mark (conjoined AV in a 6-sided cartouche)

  Illustrated: Industrial Design Unikate Serienerzeugnisse, Die Neue Sammlung ein neuer Museumstyp des 20. Jahrhunderts, Hans Wichmann (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1985), p. 131; Christopher Dresser, ein Viktorianischer Designer, 1834-1904 (Cologne: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, 1981), p. 73, ill. 86, cat. no. 23; Industrial Design, John Heskett (New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 24, illus. 9; Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, Michael Collins (London: Camden Arts Centre, 1979), p. 171, cat.no.12.

  H: 6” x Dia: 4”