In his effort to create good design for industrial production, Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) operated as a freelance commercial designer for many different manufacturers.
Among them was the ceramics company Minton. Dresser began supplying designs for tablewares and ornamental pieces in the late 1860s.
This Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic side table above includes the original period revolving 21½in (55cm) wide Minton porcelain plate in the Japanese Crane pattern designed by Dresser.
Potteries Auctions in Staffordshire is offering the table on March 10, estimated at £250-500.
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A signed and inscribed first edition on the suffragette movement by Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) will go under the hammer at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, on March 13.
The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals charts the triumphs, trials and tribulations of the Pankhursts and their fellow campaigners over the years.
These include Pankhurst’s split from her mother Emmeline and sister Christabel as a result of her support for socialism, communism and opposition to Britain’s involvement in the First World War
The book is inscribed and signed to the front endpaper by Pankhurst: With memories of our long struggle together and best wishes for future happiness and a hope that it still seems worthwhile to you. The unknown recipient is thought to have been a close friend and campaigner.
The estimate is £200-300.
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These verdigris bronze bookends above were sculpted by Max Le Verrier (1891-1973) during the height of the Art Deco period in Paris.
Each is formed as a stylised 6in (15cm) high squirrel eating an acorn on a raised antico verde marble plinth.
Together they are estimated at £150-250 in a sale at Paul Beighton Auctioneers in Thurcroft, South Yorkshire, on March 17.
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This 23½in x 2ft 7in (60 x 80cm) poster shown above, promoting the delights of the Greek island of Corfu, dates to c.1949.
Printed in Greece by M Pechlivanides & Co, Athens, it will go under the hammer alongside other travel posters in Bishop & Miller’s sale in Stowmarket, Suffolk, on March 10.
Estimate £150-250.
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