£2,500
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 616
Auction: Decorative Arts: Design since 1860
with deep bowl set on three tapering feet, with two cylindrical ebonised wood handles, the later cover with turned ebonised wood finial, engraved with double-headed eagle crest, stamped marks to base DESIGNED BY DR C. DRESSER/ H&H/ 2123
Literature: Whiteway, Michael 'Christopher Dresser 1834-1904', Skira 2001, p. 96, pl. 96;
Whiteway, Michael (ed.), 'Christopher Dresser, A Design Revolution', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 9 September - 5 December 2004, p. 151, pl. 186
Note: See Christopher Dresser Metalwork, The Andrew McIntosh Patrick Collection, Lyon & Turnbull, 19 April 2005, lot 35, for a soup tureen of matching pattern