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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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  Michael Powolny Rare Loetz Witwe Vienna Secession Tall Bud Vase c.1914

  PROF. MICHAEL POWOLNY  (1871-1954)  Austria

  JOH. LÖTZ WITWE GLASWERKS  Klostermϋhle, Bohemia

  Tall bud vase   c. 1914

  “Opal mit streifen” opaline blown glass with applied blue glass canes and blue knob above opaline base

  Exhibited: 1914 Werkbundausstellung, Cologne (Lötz period photograph, vase for the 1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition) Lötz:  Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940:  Werkmonographie, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil (Munich: Prestal-Verlag, 1989), p. 267; Wiener Werkstätte Design in Vienna 1903-1932, Christian Brandstätter (New York:Verlag Harry Abrams, 2003) p. 247.

  Form illustrated: Lötz:  Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940:  Werkmonographie, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil (Munich: Prestal-Verlag, 1989), p. 267
  Same ”opal mit streifen” technique illustrated: Glaskunst der Moderne: von Josef Hoffmann bis Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Torsten Bröhan (Munich: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1992), cat. no. 19, pp. 74-77.

  H: 11″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

  Price: $10,500

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  Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Rare Clutha vase c. 1890

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK

  JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow, Scotland

  “Clutha” vase   c. 1890

  Blown strawberry glass

  This Dresser form appears as Linthorpe Pottery model no. 114.

  Illustrated: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904,exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 70.

  Rare model.

  H: 5 1/8” x W: 6”

   

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  Paul Haustein Germany Rare Jugendstil enamel and silver inkwell c.1900

  PAUL HAUSTEIN  (1880-1944)  Germany
  HERMANN BEHRND (b. 1849) SILBERWARENFABRIK (silver) Dresden, Germany
  JAKAB RAPOPORT (enamelist) Budapest, Hungary

  Inkwell  c. 1900

  Multicolored burgundy, purple, blue and green enamel with silver mounts, glass insert

  Marks: Moon, crown, 800, HB (Hermann Behrnd mark)

  Same model with variant mount illustrated: Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung, n.d. (circa 1903-05), p. 23

  For related works and more information see: Art Nouveau in Munich: Masters of Jugendstil, ed. Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988) pp. 67-69; Jugendstil in Dresden, Aufbruch in die Moderne, Gisela Haase et al., exh. cat. (Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Wolfratshausen: Edition Minerva, 1999).

  Dia: 7 1/4″ x H: 4 1/2″