Gold, silver and bronze: British auctions in April win all the prizes, from a superlative Christopher Dresser collection selling in Edinburgh to renaissance medals and Iznik in London.(The Art Market) Apollo | April 1, 2005| | COPYRIGHT 2005 Apollo Magazine Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Three quite different private collections steal the limelight this month. On 19 April, Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull present the finest collection of metalwork designed by Dr Christopher Dresser ever to come to auction. This widely exhibited group of fifty pieces was amassed over thirty years by Andrew McIntosh Patrick, vice-chairman of The Fine Art Society in London and an early champion of Dresser's critical rehabilitation.

Until his rediscovery by Nikolaus Pevsner, who numbered Dresser among his Pioneers of Modern Design in 1936, Dresser was the great ...

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