A SILVER WATER PITCHER

Details

A SILVER WATER PITCHER
MAKER'S MARKS OF JOHN C. MOORE AND TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1853

Of shaped baluster form, the body repousse and chased with cattails and leaves, the handle formed of cast cattails, marked, 231, 271 Broadway --9 3/4in. high
(26oz.)

Literature

Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. and Janet Zapata, The Silver of Tiffany & Co., 1850-1987, Boston, 1987, cat. no. 47, p. 26

Exhibited

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "The Silver of Tiffany & Co, 1850-1987," 1987

Lot Essay

Tiffany's records describe this pitcher as "Pitcher water-Flag leaf."
Although the present pitcher is marked with initials JCM, for John C. Moore, its design is attributable to his son, Edward C. Moore. John C. Moore was not active after 1851.

This pitcher demonstrates the strong influence of English ceramics on American wares in the mid-19th century. William Hosley has explained this phenomenon in his chapter "British Pottery Invades America," in The Japan Idea, 1990, p. 154.

Photo caption: similar English pottery example.