Lot 144
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CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) FOR BENHAM & FROUD
'THE RICHMOND', AN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT WALNUT AND MIXED METAL COAL BOX, CIRCA 1880
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 577
Auction: 23 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
Estimate: £400 - £600
Description
with brass fitting, the lift-up door inset with mixed metal Japanoise panel
Dimensions
36cm wide, 43cm high, 51cm deep
Footnote
Literature: The Furniture Gazette, 1st October 1886, p. 347
Halen, Widar Christopher Dresser, Phaidon 1993, pp. 179, 187, pl. 218 illus.
Note: A contemporary critic praised six new coal box designs produced by Benham & Froud in the late 1870s including this example, the Richmond. He went on to praise the firm for "(lifting) the coal-box and the fitments of the grate from the decrepitude into which they had, some years ago, fallen."