‘Past master’ Dresser still admired today as claret jug makes 10 times estimate at Catherine Southon
The Birmingham silversmithing firm of Hukin & Heath received the approval of the progressive (if slightly pompous) writers of The Furniture Gazette when it signed a big name to produce some of its designs in 1878.
In the issue published in August that year the Gazette commented: “In order that the firm may be r…