MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1900

Paulding Farnham designed a grand silver-gilt dessert service in the Italian Renaissance style for the Paris Exposition of 1900. This service is discussed in Janet Zapata, "The Rediscovery of Paulding Farnham, Tiffany's Designer Extraordinaire," The Magazine Antiques, April 1991, pp. 724-25, plates VIII and IX. An extensive coffee service of this pattern was sold at Christie's, New York, 19 May 2005, lot 23.