Lot 62
ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTOPHER DRESSER FOR THE COALBROOKDALE COMPANY
AESTHETIC MOVEMENT CAST IRON FENDER, CIRCA 1870
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860
Auction: 23 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
Description
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)
Dimensions
138.5cm wide, 22cm high, 37cm deep
Footnote
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.