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    Sale 8551

    THE AESTHETIC INTERIOR: FEATURING NINETEENTH CENTURY ART

    New York, East

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    13 March 2001

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    • A TERRACOTTA EWER
    Lot 436

    A TERRACOTTA EWER

    DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO CHRISTOPHER DRESSER FOR WATCOMBE POTTERY, CIRCA 1875

    Price realised

    USD 564

    Estimate

    USD 450 - USD 650

    This Lot has no reserve

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    A TERRACOTTA EWER
    Design attributed to Christopher Dresser for Watcombe Pottery, Circa 1875
    Decorated with spiraling bands of flowerheads above a frieze of dragonflies, with dragon handle, stamped Watcombe Porcelain 3Q34
    9¾in. (24.8cm.) high

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    Lot Essay

    cf. Dr. Widar Halén, Christopher Dresser, 1990, p.140 for an illustration of the model.

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