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  Christopher Dresser / Linthorpe Art Pottery Rare Aesthetic Movement “Gourd” Vase 1879-1882

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

  “Gourd Vase”   1879-1882

  Glazed Earthenware

  ***Extremely rare Dresser / Linthorpe model.

  Marked: LINTHORPE, Chr. Dresser (facsimile signature) HT, no. 326

  Illustrated:  Christopher Dresser: Truth, Beauty, Power exh. cat. (New York: Historical Design, 1998) p.75; illustrated in two drawings for gourd vases in Dresser’s 1881 design and account book under heading “Aug. 29, 1881. Sent to J. Harrison Esq. 41 Designs for Linthorpe.”

  H: 7 3/4″

  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 “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”