MARKED TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1875-1891

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A FINE EIGHT-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
Marked Tiffany & Co., New York, 1875-1891
In the Persian taste, comprising: coffee pot, teapot, demitasse coffee pot, cream jug, hot milk jug, sugar bowl, waste bowl, and kettle on stand, the bodies chased overall with flowers and foliate scrolls, the handle joins and spouts with spiral fluting set with rosettes, the domed covers with bulb finials, fully hallmarked.
Coffee pot 11in. (28cm.) high; gross weight 215oz. (8)

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Lot Essay

In 1876, Tiffany & Co. displayed a five-piece tea and coffee serivce matching this pattern, at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. A contemporary newspaper commented the service was "the most wonderful specimen of repousse work in Tiffany's exhibit, ... Persian in outline, with the flowers and foliage so beautifully brought out, that a botanist could classify every leaf and flower." The article further noted a service in the same style was on sale in the New York store for the enormous sum of $3,000. Magnificent Tiffany Silver, John Loring, 2001, page 145.

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