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A Parcel-Gilt Silver Japanesque Flatware Service
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A Parcel-Gilt Silver Japanesque Flatware Service

BY TIFFANY & CO., CIRCA 1878

細節
A Parcel-Gilt Silver Japanesque Flatware Service
By Tiffany & Co., circa 1878
Japanese pattern, the dessert service further engraved with Japanese motifs and gilt in two colours
Comprising:
12 dinner forks
12 soup spoons
12 coffee spoons
12 dessert spoons
12 dessert forks
12 dessert knives

and 12 dinner knives in the Audubon pattern, 1965
8 5/8in. (22cm.) length of soup spoon
Each piece engraved with interlacing monogram LIS and stamped m TIFFANY & CO STERLING PAT 1871 and with French control mark of 1864-1893 ET (84)
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

Thought to be Tiffany's first silver designed in the Japanesque taste, Japanese pattern flatware was patented in 1871 by Edward C. Moore. The handles have individual designs for different pieces and Tiffany's patent described is as 'branches with leaves, buds and flowers of a peculiar kind. Among these branches, twigs and flowers is a bird.' (as quoted in Charles Carpenter, Tiffany Silver, rpt. 1997, p. 161). The flatware pattern was re-issued in 1956 as the Audubon pattern.
As the pieces show French foreign import marks one can speculate that this service may have been shown at the 1878 Exposition Universelle.