£475
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 577
Auction: 23 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
cast and pierced with stylised foliate motifs and with a frieze of pierced roundels below, with Victorian registration cast lozenge and serial number 230922/ no 235/ 4ft 6" (incised)
Literature: Lyons, Harry Christopher Dresser: The People's Designer, Woodbridge 2005, pp. 152-3.
Note: The National Archives at Kew record this piece at 10th July 1869 as 'Design for a Fender/ The Coalbrookdale Co./ Coalbrookdale/ Shropshire'. Dresser is first documented as working for the firm circa 1870 however stylistic evidence and designs such as the 'Water Plant' garden furniture were registered at an earlier date, pointing to his designing for the firm from the mid-1860s.