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Lot Essay
This model was one of Tiffany & Co.'s most successful creations in the Japanesque style. Its design and that of the sugar bowl in the following lot were created by Edward C. Moore, Tiffany's legendary design director, for the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Tiffany's exhibit of Japanesque-style silver won worldwide acclaim at the Exposition, as well as the grand prix for silverware. Moore's genius lay in the combination of colorful metallic alloys with organic forms and ornament derived from nature.
A similar teapot, with a matte (but not hammered) finish, is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society and illustrated in John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, 2001, p. 59. Another teapot and sugar bowl of the same form of this and the next lot, but decorated with marine motifs, are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. A similar teapot sold in these Rooms, June 16, 1999, lot 52.
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Tiffany teapot exhibited at the 1878 Paris Exposition, illustrated in the National Repository, November 1879.
A similar teapot, with a matte (but not hammered) finish, is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society and illustrated in John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, 2001, p. 59. Another teapot and sugar bowl of the same form of this and the next lot, but decorated with marine motifs, are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. A similar teapot sold in these Rooms, June 16, 1999, lot 52.
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Tiffany teapot exhibited at the 1878 Paris Exposition, illustrated in the National Repository, November 1879.