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MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
细节
A SILVER AND MIXED-METAL HOT WATER JUG
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
Gourd form on four bracket feet, the body with spot-hammered surface and applied with copper and gold seed pods hanging from wisteria branches, a copper and gold grasshopper and a mokume butterfly, the handle applied with vines and a beetle, with ivory insulators, marked under base, also marked 5325/438/391
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high; 12 oz. (384 gr.) gross weight
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
Gourd form on four bracket feet, the body with spot-hammered surface and applied with copper and gold seed pods hanging from wisteria branches, a copper and gold grasshopper and a mokume butterfly, the handle applied with vines and a beetle, with ivory insulators, marked under base, also marked 5325/438/391
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high; 12 oz. (384 gr.) gross weight
来源
Hoffman & Gampietro, New York, 22 April 1989
The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver, sold
Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1996, lot 19
The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver, sold
Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1996, lot 19
出版
John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, 2001, illus. p. 40.
注意事项
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