Christopher Dresser and Benham & Froud
Tea Kettle
1879-1889
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Physical Qualities
Copper alloys, brass, wood, 8 1/2 x 9 x 6 in. (21.6 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Michael and Anis Merson, Baltimore
Object Number
2009.139
Christopher Dresser was the first significant industrial designer in Victorian England. About 50 years after he desgined this teakettle, architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner included an illustration of it in a 1937 issue of The Architectural Review, helping to establish Dresser as a harbinger of 20th-century modernism.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Michael and Anis Merson, Baltimore
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
American Wing Rotations 2022
American Wing Rotations 2023
American Wing Rotations 2024
American Wing Rotations 2025
Michael Whiteway, ed., "Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004. Plate 241, p. 179. Similar example.
Markings: 2 stamped marks on underside
On View at the BMA
