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Christopher Dresser and Benham & Froud

Tea Kettle

1879-1889

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Tea Kettle

1879-1889

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

Markings: 2 stamped marks on underside

Designer

Christopher Dresser

1833–1903

English, 1834-1904
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Manufacturer

Benham & Froud

1854–1923

London, c. 1855-1924
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