Lot 49
CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904)
THREE PIECE TEA SERVICE
Auction: 19 April 2005 at 13:00 BST
Description
manufactured by James Dixon and Sons, silver plate, comprising a tea pot with ebony handle, 11cm high, a milk jug, 6cm high and a sugar bowl, 9cm high, each stamped with facsimile signature 'Chr. Dresser', and marked 'JD & S, 2273', with registration mark for 1880 (3)
Footnote
LITERATURE:
Christopher Dresser: A Pioneer of Modern Design, Widar Halen, Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 1993, plate 205
Christopher Dresser; The Peoples Designer 1834-1904, Harry Lyons, Antique Collectors Club, 2005, plate 351
NOTE:
Dresser produced several exceptional designs for Elkingtons around this date and the pared down lines of this sugar bowl give it a particularly 'modern' look.
The present example has been copied by Italian design firm Alessi who have reproduced it as part of their Dresser range.
An exaggerated drawing of this bowl appears in Dressers article for 'The Technical Educator', 'Principles of Design' which appears base the design on Egyptianesque forms.
For a similar tea service see The Harry Lyons Collection, Christie's South Kensington, London, 19th October 2004, Lot 401