Christopher Dresser / James Dixon & Sons “Triple Arch” square handle toast rack c.1881
CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK
JAMES DIXON & SONS Sheffield, England
“Triple Arch” square handle toast rack c.1881
Silver-plate
Marks: JD&S (stamped), Chr. Dresser (facsimile signature), EP, #67, diamond or clover touchmark
Illustrated: 1885 Dixon catalogue, p. 95
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);
Tommi Parzinger, Sterling silver coffee pot with meandering floral and leaf design, ebony handle and finial detail c. 1938
TOMMI PARZINGER (1903-1972) Germany / USA
PETER ALBERT REIMES Silversmith (1900-1945) Germany / USA
Modernist Coffee pot c. 1938
Hand wrought sterling silver with meandering floral and leaf design, ebony handle and finial detail
Marks: Designed by Parzinger (in script), hand made, sterling (in script), P*R monogram (initials mark of Peter Reimes)
Model illustrated: LIFE Magazine November 20, 1939
For more information on Tommi Parzinger see: Town & Country, Vol. 54, “Counter Points”, December 1939, p. 31; Town & Country, Vol. 95, “Counter Points”, June 1940, p. 19; The Studio, 1938, “For the Table”, p.107-09; The Studio, 1942, “Tommi Parzinger, Designer of Modern Interiors and Silver”, p.37; Decorative Art, Studio Yearbook (London & New York: The Studio Publications, 1952-53), p. 98; Craft in the Machine Age, ed. Janet Kardon (New York: American Craft Museum, 1995) p.128, 134, 183, 241, Arts and Decoration, June 1940
H: 9 ¼” x W: 6 ½” x D: 3 ¾”
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