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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Christopher Dresser, Chair, ca. 1880
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Christopher Dresser, Chair, ca. 1880
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Christopher Dresser, Chair, ca. 1880
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Christopher Dresser, Chair, ca. 1880

Christopher Dresser

Chair, ca. 1880
Ebonized and gilded mahogany
Probably made by Thomas Knight
h. 33 1/16 in. (84 cm) - w. 9 7/16 in. (60,5 cm) - d. 24 in. (60,5 cm)
Unique piece

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PRIVATE COLLECTION
PRIVATE COLLECTION

Provenance

Designed for the Art Furnishers’ Alliance, London
Private collection, South Africa, 1980's
Haslam & Whiteway, London, 1980’s
Collection of John Scott, London, 1980's, until 2014

Exhibitions

‘Christopher Dresser, un designer alla corte della regina Vittoria', Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, 2002
‘The Cult of Beauty : The Aesthetic Movement’, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2011
Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, 2012

Publications

Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth Century Design : Pugin to Mackintosh, 1993, illustrated page 183.
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