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The American West: Native Art, Fine Jewelry & Silver

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Pre-bidding is now open for The American West: Native Art, Fine Jewelry & Silver auction, featuring Navajo jewelry, Western fine art, sterling silver, sculptures, rugs, and more. Highlights include a John Nieto "Maria" acrylic on canvas, a 6-piece Sanborns sterling silver tea set, and a 1.66 ct diamond engagement ring, alongside pieces from Gene Kloss, Georg Jensen, and Marie Barbera. Auction is September 29th at 1 PM CDT.
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Lot 223

After Christopher Dresser Geometric Teapot

Estimate: $150 - $300
Starting Bid
$50

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Silver-plated teapot with an ebonized wood handle, in the manner of Christopher Dresser’s designs for James Dixon & Sons. 

 

Dimensions: 10" Wide x 7" Tall x 2" Deep 

 

Condition: Light tarnishing throughout. Minor surface scratches, otherwise the teapot is in good condition. Please see images for details. 

 

About: Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) trained as a botanist before turning to design, and is generally regarded as the first professional industrial designer - a figure who designed for manufacture rather than making by hand. A visit to Japan in 1876-77 shaped an aesthetic of restraint, asymmetry and undecorated geometry that ran counter to Victorian ornament. His metalwork of the 1870s and 1880s, made mostly in electroplate by Hukin & Heath, James Dixon & Sons and Elkington & Co., reduces the teapot to cylinders, cones and flat planes on spindly legs, with exposed rivets and ebonised handles. These designs have been reissued extensively since the later twentieth century.

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