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MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1878
Details
A SILVER AND MIXED-METAL JAPANESQUE EXPOSITION SUGAR BOWL
Maker's mark of Tiffany & Co., New York, 1878
applied with copper and gold motifs, the other side with copper maple leaves, gold seed pods, a fly and and bee, the interior gilt
4in. (10.2cm.) diameter; gross weight 7oz. (218gr.)
marked under base 5390/607 and near rim with French control mark
Maker's mark of Tiffany & Co., New York, 1878
applied with copper and gold motifs, the other side with copper maple leaves, gold seed pods, a fly and and bee, the interior gilt
4in. (10.2cm.) diameter; gross weight 7oz. (218gr.)
marked under base 5390/607 and near rim with French control mark
Literature
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, 1987, p. 268, ill. 8.10; John Culme, Nineteenth-Century Silver, 1977, p. 194
Exhibited
L'Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878