Clutha Vase
Dresser was a trained botanist who designed for industry — the first designer in the modern sense, and priced as a curiosity for a century.
MakerChristopher Dresser
Datec. 1895
OriginGlasgow
MediumBlown glass
Dimensions42.8 × 11.1 cm (16 7/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
Classvase
RegisterObject
QuantityOne. There is never a second.
€ 291
How this figure was reached
29 priced lots of 58 ended for this name; 45–250 GBP, median 80, converted at the ECB rate of 2026-09-21.
This is the market's number, not the dealer's ask — the top of what the name has realised in public. The dealer's own figure replaces it when the object is catalogued.
The public record
Auctionet, 2026-09-21 · 58 ended lots found
priced 29
unsold 4
sell-through 88%
confidence 0.50
basis hammer
in euro € 52–€ 291
Attribution
By
Documented as the maker's own work.
Attributed to
The scholarship points here; the documentation is incomplete.
Circle of
The workshop or immediate following, in the maker's lifetime.
Manner of
The style, by another hand, at any date.
After
A copy of a known work by this maker.
Unattributed
No maker of record. Most of the trade lives here.
This plate
Clutha Vase, Art Institute of Chicago, object 63546.
Richard T. Crane, Jr. Endowment Released as Public Domain (CC0);
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