Teapot
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Teapot
- Designer: Christopher Dresser (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1834–1904 Mulhouse)
- Manufactory: James Dixon & Sons (British, founded Sheffield, 1806)
- Date: ca. 1879
- Culture: British, Sheffield
- Medium: Silverplate, ebony
- Dimensions: confirmed: 5 × 9 × 5 1/4 in., 1.1 lb. (12.7 × 22.9 × 13.3 cm, 500g)
- Classification: Metalwork-Silverplate
- Credit Line: Gift of Lawrence A. and Janet Y. Larose, 2021
- Object Number: 2021.153.2
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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