Dressed up

After the day everyone sat around the fire warming up and talking, Kimio-san commented on a Christopher Dresser teapot on the mantel piece, surprised that I owned a Japanese wedding sake jug. The design was an exact copy of a relatively rare object. I explained it was designed in the 1870’s and was considered a cornerstone in the development of modernism (these teapots fetch in the 200k region at auction – not the one I have it’s a unsigned copy).