Lot 45
45
A FINE SILVER AND MIXED-METAL LOVING CUP
A FINE SILVER AND MIXED-METAL LOVING CUP

MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1885

Details
A FINE SILVER AND MIXED-METAL LOVING CUP
Maker's mark of Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1885
Vase-shaped, on three feet cast in the form of buffalo heads and hooves, the acid-etched surface with niello and vari-colored gold sunbursts, the scroll handles with etched geometric decoration, the vari-colored parcel-gilt interior etched with sunburst and geometric motifs, marked under base 5980/2008
10in. high, gross weight 80oz. 10dwt.
Tiffany & Co.

Lot Essay

This cup is recorded as "Love Cup Buffalo Head" in the Tiffany pattern books. 80.50 oz. of sterling were used in the manufacture for a total cost of $225.

A similar loving cup with buffalo-head feet but different surface decoration was sold at Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 1998, lot 29 and previously in these Rooms, January 20, 1989, lot 260.