Teapot

Designer Christopher Dresser British, Scottish
 Manufactory James Dixon & Sons British

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 516

This teapot was produced by the Sheffield firm of Dixon and Sons, founded around 1808, to a design by Christopher Dresser. The versatile Dresser sold thirty-seven designs to the firm between 1879 and 1882, but not all of them materialized. Highly unusual designs, such as that of this teapot, afforded Dresser the appreciation as a proto-modernist. However, they also departed from Dresser’s own set of rules regarding the cost-effective production and employment of expensive materials.

#418. Christopher Dresser and the Birth of Industrial Design

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Teapot, Christopher Dresser (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1834–1904 Mulhouse), Silverplate, ebony, British, Sheffield

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Teapot, Christopher Dresser (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1834–1904 Mulhouse), Silverplate, ebony, British, Sheffield
Teapot, Christopher Dresser (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1834–1904 Mulhouse), Silverplate, ebony, British, Sheffield
Teapot, Christopher Dresser (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1834–1904 Mulhouse), Silverplate, ebony, British, Sheffield

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