by Roland Arkell
A Linthorpe pottery sake bottle designed for the Middlesbrough pottery by Dr Christopher Dresser has sold for a record £17,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium).
The 7in (17cm) vessel, with impressed maker’s marks and an indistinct impressed facsimile signature, carried an estimate of £400-600 in the sale of Decorative Arts & Design at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on October 23. The buyer was a collector.