Carafe
Christopher Dresser, 1834-1904
Linthorpe Art Pottery, Middlesbrough
1879-82
9 1/2 inches (24 cm) high
Earthenware with decorated with stylised floral design and green/yellow/red glazes. Impressed LINTHORPE/HT/facsimile signature and inscribed 344. A covered silver-plate ewer of almost identical design by Dresser's assistant John Moyr Smith was illustrated in The Building News, 30 May 1873.
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