MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1878

A woodcut illustration (opposite) taken from a contemporary review of the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris indicates that a teapot made to this design was exhibited at the fair. The reviewer, Emile Bergerat, wrote in the article accompanying this woodcut, "The work of encrustation, of niello and of alloying tones are equally worthy of attracting the attention of connoisseurs. They are executed with an infinite taste and which one must congratulate twice an American manufacturer."

The Tiffany pattern books show this teapot listed as "Tte Tte Set Saki form."