The Property of
R. THORNTON WILSON
AN EIGHT-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
Details
AN EIGHT-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN C. MOORE FOR TIFFANY YOUNG & ELLIS/TIFFANY & CO.,CIRCA 1852
Comprising coffee pot, teapot, hot-water kettle, stand and lamp, covered cream jug, covered sugar bowl, sugar basket, tea caddy and waste bowl; each elaborately repousse and chased with folaite grape fines, the scroll spouts and handles formed as foliate grapevines, the domed covers with similar decoration and surmounted by an openwork grapevine finial, the the tea caddy of rectangular form, the boat-shaped sugar basket with overhead openwork foliate grapevine swing handle, each engraved on the side WCA and under base CAH, all pieces marked JCM, three pieces Tiffany, Young & Ellis, four pieces Tiffany & Co.--height of kettle on stand 16 3/4in.
(gross weight 236 oz.) (8)
MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN C. MOORE FOR TIFFANY YOUNG & ELLIS/TIFFANY & CO.,CIRCA 1852
Comprising coffee pot, teapot, hot-water kettle, stand and lamp, covered cream jug, covered sugar bowl, sugar basket, tea caddy and waste bowl; each elaborately repousse and chased with folaite grape fines, the scroll spouts and handles formed as foliate grapevines, the domed covers with similar decoration and surmounted by an openwork grapevine finial, the the tea caddy of rectangular form, the boat-shaped sugar basket with overhead openwork foliate grapevine swing handle, each engraved on the side WCA and under base CAH, all pieces marked JCM, three pieces Tiffany, Young & Ellis, four pieces Tiffany & Co.--height of kettle on stand 16 3/4in.
(gross weight 236 oz.) (8)
Provenance
William Backhouse Astor, Jr., and his wife Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, married in 1853. Mrs. Astor was the leading socialite of New York in the late 19th century, and with Ward McAllister, formed the famous Four Hundred, New York's most elite social roster.
Thence by descent to the present owner
Thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
John Loring, Tiffany's 150 Years, New York, 1987, illus. pp. 43-45. Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., and Janet Zapata, The Silver of Tiffany & Co., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987, illus. p. 25.
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987