14th Jun, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
20th Century Design
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Woodpeckerman: Stan Dodds (1928-2012): A Carved and Painted Lime German Shepherd, standing, on a rectangular base, with recessed carved woodpecker trademark,
20.5cm long, 20cm high
Stan Dodds worked for Robert Thompson from 1942 until his retirement in 1994. Stan also used a rabbit as his own trademark until the mid/late 1960s when Peter Heap (Wetwang) a fellow ex Kilburn craftsman registered it as his own trademark. Stan then changed to a woodpecker trademark.
Sold for £800
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
Auction: 20th Century Design, 14th Jun, 2025
An array of 20th Century Design is coming up for sale at Tennants 14th June, and amongst the over 250 lots is a colourful and vibrant collection of glass by contemporary glass-maker Ruth Dresman. Being sold from a Private Collection of Glass and Studio Pottery, each piece of Dresman’s glass is engraved using a unique sandblasting method.
Amongst a wide range of furniture and furnishings by Yorkshire icon Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson and his workshop is an impressive English Oak 7ft Refectory Table, made in 1932 for the University of Aberdeen, and there is also a good variety of furniture by the other Yorkshire Critter carvers, with pieces by the likes of Squirrelman, Wrenman, Beaverman and Gnomeman.
Modern design furniture in the sale includes pieces by Charles and Ray Eames and Merrow Associates, and there is a good private collection of pots by Poh Chap Yeap, one of the leading potters working in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.
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