拍品 82
82
A RARE SILVER PITCHER, maker's mark of Tiffany & Co., 1893, order number 5465, pattern number 4523, the globular body on rim foot, with slightly indented corners, molded cylindrical neck, the joins of the curved molded, part cactus applied, handle spreading into the neck of the spout, repousse, chased, engraved and applied with lush flowering cactus, tropical plants and banana plants, on matted ground, centering lower front cactus style engraved initial T--9in. (22.8cm.) high, 50.5oz.

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A RARE SILVER PITCHER, maker's mark of Tiffany & Co., 1893, order number 5465, pattern number 4523, the globular body on rim foot, with slightly indented corners, molded cylindrical neck, the joins of the curved molded, part cactus applied, handle spreading into the neck of the spout, repousse, chased, engraved and applied with lush flowering cactus, tropical plants and banana plants, on matted ground, centering lower front cactus style engraved initial T--9in. (22.8cm.) high, 50.5oz.

拍品專文

Tiffany's pattern book records this piece, no. 4523, on March 16, 1893, under Pitcher Gourd, 50.4 ounces. It is recorded as ...Chsg. Bananas etc Cactus, Special. It cost $700 to manufacture; while the other versions cost between $50 to $480.

This pitcher appears to be the example illustrated in Tiffany's archival photograph of a display at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. It is described in their Exposition catalogue as no. 28 as "TROPICAL PITCHER, mounted and chased with cactus, banana, and other tropical plants."
A closely related tankard bearing Tiffany's 1893 Exposition mark was sold Christie's, October 10, 1987, lot 32.