Lot 18
CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904)
TOAST RACK
Auction: 19 April 2005 at 13:00 BST
Description
designed circa 1880, manufactured by James Dixon & Sons, silver plate, stamped with facsimile signature 'Chr Dresser', and marked 'J.D. & S. 67'
Dimensions
12cm high
Footnote
EXHIBITED:
Le Japonisme, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 17th May - 15th August 1988; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23rd September - 11th December 1988
Design, Mirror of the Century, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 17 May - 25 July 1993
'Christopher Dresser: Un designer alla corte della regina Victoria', Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, 30 October 2001-March 2002
'The Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser', Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, 5 March - 25 July 2004
'Christopher Dresser 1834-1904: A Design Revolution', The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 9 September - 5 December 2004
LITERATURE:
James Dixon and Sons, Cornish Place, Sheffield, Catalogue, 1885, page 95 for a similar example
'Christopher Dresser: A Pioneer of Modern Design', Widar Halen, Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 1993, plate 210
'Christopher Dresser 1834-1904', Michael Whiteway, Skira Editore S.p.A., Milan, 2001, plate 90
'Christopher Dresser: A Design Revolution', ed. Michael Whiteway, V & A Publications, London, 2004, plate 199