Christopher Dresser Coalbrookdale 'Boreas' hall stand
Estimate $12,000 – $15,000
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
- Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)
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
Condition Report
Later brown patina, three coat hooks well executed later cast replacements, replacement nuts to reverse of coat hooks, some reinforcing later welding to pierced section of upper back. This is to repair what appears as a fine hairline crack to the front. Scrolling section flanking marble repaired to both sides. Well executed repair to crack in marble. Drip trays original however drip tray supports replaced.
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