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This flask-shaped jug has an unusual body assembled from five bands, with pronounced horizontal grooves where one band joins another.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) is often regarded as the 'father of industrial design'. He designed utilitarian objects for the general public while making full use of the latest techniques of mass production. Dresser's most innovative designs were for objects to be made in metal. His designs for ceramics and glass often resemble plant forms in their shape, ornamentation or colouring, but his designs for metalwork objects tend to be fully abstract. He frequently employed symmetrical, rectilinear shapes and undecorated surfaces. This was partly due to the intrinsic value of silver and gold, which he specified should be used economically in order to make the object affordable. This is in keeping with his ethical attitude towards economy in design.<br><br><b>Manufacturing</b><br>Dresser was a prolific worker and produced designs for numerous manufacturers, including Hukin & Heath (about 1878-1890s), Elkington & Co. (about 1875-1888) and James Dixon & Sons (about 1879-1890s). Some of his designs were considered too ahead of their time to go into production, and six exist only as prototypes.","physicalDescription":"Wine jug, electroplated nickel silver, flask shaped body, annulated with three grooves on the widest part of the body, and with a step defining the collar, which terminates in an everted edge.  Hinged circular flat lid, with a combined finial and thumbpiece in the form of a scroll forming a dogleg with spiralling ends.  Shaped handle.  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