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Christopher Dresser Coalbrookdale 'Boreas' hall stand, cast…
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Melbourne
Date:
29-Jul-2014
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Christopher Dresser Coalbrookdale 'Boreas' hall stand, cast iron, marble, with a bronzed finish highlighted in gilt, the arched back with coat hooks, pierced with stylised foliage centred by a shield above two panels depicting Boreas and Aquarius, the lower section with a marble inset above a frieze drawer, flanked by side umbrella rails and lower drip trays, the front frieze stamped 'Coalbrookdale', stamped with diamond registration mark and 'No. 239430', stamped twice 'No. 44', 230 cm high . Literature: For a contemporary photograph of this model in the 1870 archives of the Public Records Office, London see Widar Halen, 'Christopher Dresser, a Pioneer of Modern Design,' London, 2000, p. 75, ill. no. 65, For a hallstand of the same model see 'Fine 20th Century Design and an Important European Collection of Art Deco Figures,' Sotheby's, London, 19 May 2010, lot 130,
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Unclassified