Arts & Crafs Teapot By Christopher Dresser Made Benham & Froud London

Superb copper and wood teapot. A screw is missing from the handle. Not too complicated to find. Christopher Dresser, born July 4, 1834 in Glasgow Scotland - died November 24, 1904 in Mulhouse, Alsace, France, is, with William Morris, one of the most important Britons of the Victorian era. His creations cover a large part of the decorative arts: tapestry, textiles, furniture, metal objects, glass, wood, wallpaper, ceramics. Contrary to the fashion of the time, then to the credo of Art Nouveau, Dresser created functional objects whose novelty of form and utility, and not the complexity of the ornamentations, constituted aesthetic success, which made him led to the rejection of superfluous decorative motifs. This tendency towards purity is particularly visible in his metal objects and his glass and metal creations. It is certainly this “utilitarian” approach, this search for purity in form, which led him to accept and seek the industrial production of his creations in collaboration with at least thirty British firms, notably the Elkington companies. & Company, the Old Hall Earthenware Company, the Coalbrookdale Company, JW& C. Ward, Hukin & Heath, William Ault's, Benham and Froud, William Couper, Heath & Middleton, WW. Harrison & Co, Deakin & Moore. total height with wrought iron 1 m42cm.master stamp HT