Dresser’s genius brings happy returns
The Design sale at Christie’s New York (25/20% buyer’s premium) on December 13 included the return to the auction room of one of the famous series of electroplated teapots made by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield, c.1879, to designs by Christopher Dresser.
By the early 1870s, Dresser, one of the most creative and influential minds of the 19th century, w…