AN AMERICAN SILVER AND MIXED-METAL TRAY

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880

Details

AN AMERICAN SILVER AND MIXED-METAL TRAY
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
Gourd-form with copper stem, on four cloud-form feet, the field spot-hammered and inlaid with a copper and gold iris flower and copper and gold dragonfly, marked on reverse, and with factory numbers 5391/867/435 and STERLING SILVER AND OTHER METALS PATENT APPLIED FOR
16¼ in. (40.7 cm.) long; 36 oz. 10 dwt. (1,148 gr.) gross weight

Provenance

Grogan & Company, Boston, 25 September 1990
The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver, offered, Sotheby's, New York 20 June 1996, lot 13

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Lot Essay

This model of tray formed part of a "Sugar and Water Set" for serving absinthe that was exhibited at the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris. The full service, which included an ice-water pitcher, sugar bowl, flacon and tray, is illustrated in a Tiffany & Co. archival photograph, circa 1878, in Christie's, New York, 10 December 1998. The identical tray is illustrated as lot 313.

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