Christopher Dresser Hukin and Heath Toast Rack, 1881. The articulated silver plate six-section Toast or Letter rack designed by Christopher Dresser for Hukin and Heath with Registration Mark for 1881. The Toast Rack of hinged bar form on four bun feet on arched base, with each section of rod and ball design with cross bar. Measures: 5.0 x 4.0 x 3.5 inches. Literature: Whiteway, Michael ‘Christopher Dresser 1834-1904’, Milan 2001, p. 84, pl. 58 for a comparable example registered for 1881.
Christopher Dresser Hukin and Heath Toast Rack, 1881
by Louis WineChristopher Dresser Hukin and Heath Toast Rack, 1881. The articulated silver plate six-section Toast or Letter rack designed by Christopher Dresser for Hukin and Heath with Registration Mark for 1881. The Toast Rack of hinged bar form on four bun feet on arched base, with each section of rod and ball design with cross bar. Measures: 5.0 x 4.0 x 3.5 inches. Literature: Whiteway, Michael ‘Christopher Dresser 1834-1904’, Milan 2001, p. 84, pl. 58 for a comparable example registered for 1881.
Louis Wine
Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) at 150 Cumberland Street (Yorkville), Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.
