Lot Essay
The inscription reads, Harold Brown From His Mother on his Twenty-First Birthday, December 24th 1884.
Details
A SILVER PRESENTATION PITCHER
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1884
Urn form on spreading foot chased with acanthus scrolls and leaves, with a tied reed band below a fluted lower body, with overlapping avanthus and reeded bands at the shoulder, repousse and chased with acanthus below an applied grotesque's mask under the lip, with leaf-clad reeded handle terminating in leaves, engraved with an inscription at the waist, marked under base 6464/6231--18in. high
(84oz.)
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1884
Urn form on spreading foot chased with acanthus scrolls and leaves, with a tied reed band below a fluted lower body, with overlapping avanthus and reeded bands at the shoulder, repousse and chased with acanthus below an applied grotesque's mask under the lip, with leaf-clad reeded handle terminating in leaves, engraved with an inscription at the waist, marked under base 6464/6231--18in. high
(84oz.)
Provenance
Harold Brown, of the Brown family of Providence, R.I.