Hanging consisting of 2 loom widths intended to be sewn together thereby creating central field with border running along 2 sides and bottom. Design of field: large yellow tulips with green intertwining stems and leaves against orange ground; rows of upright tulips alternating with rows of downward hanging tulips. Border: small yellow buds with long spiralling green stems. Band of white silk along lower edge. Condition very good except for tears along top and bottom.  Designed for G.P. & J. Baker

Furnishing fabric, woven, British, c. 1895, Alexander Morton & Co., red/brown plain silk weave

De doek of deken maakt deel uit van een baby-uitzet van de heer H.A. Wilton van Reede in 1895 geboren te Yazd (Iran).

Dresser came to glassware relatively late in his career. This vase belongs to the group of glassware trademarked "Clutha" in 1888 by the Glasgow-based glassworks of James Couper & Sons. From this date until 1896, Christopher Dresser was sole designer of Couper & Sons’ Clutha glassware, which was retailed by Liberty & Co. in London from the 1880s until around 1900. The name "Clutha" was deliberately historicizing, being the old, perhaps romanticized, Gaelic name for Glasgow’s river Clyde. In an article published in the 1870-73 Technical Educator, Dresser celebrated how "Glass has a molten state in which it can be blown into the most beautiful shapes" and the designs of most of Dresser’s Clutha vases depend upon this singularity of the production process; embracing irregular, organic forms and prizing the colored striations, as well as bubbles, particular to the medium, which Dresser also admired in Roman glass. Liberty & Co.’s publicities described Dresser’s Clutha glassware as "decorative, quaint, original and artistic".

1895~, United Kingdom

1895~, United Kingdom

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