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PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND FAMILY
AN AMERICAN SILVER, COPPER AND NIELLO BLACK COFFEE SERVICE FROM THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1891
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AN AMERICAN SILVER, COPPER AND NIELLO BLACK COFFEE SERVICE FROM THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1891
Comprising a black coffee pot, covered sugar bowl and a pair of sugar tongs; the coffee pot flaring cylindrical on a spreading circular foot, the body inlaid with niello and copper arabesques and stylized flowers, with pierced ogee-shaped rim, the hinged domed cover, handle and spout with conforming niello and copper decoration, the handle with carved cow horn insulators, the cover with cow horn finial, the sugar bowl circular on a circular foot, with two knopped handles and an everted pierced and ogee-shaped rim, the interior silver-gilt, the domed cover with conforming niello and copper decoration and cow horn finial, the sugar tongs also with conforming inlaid decoration and silver-gilt tips, the coffee pot and sugar bowl marked under bases, the tongs marked inside, the coffee pot marked 9930/7200, the sugar bowl marked 9930/3950, the tongs marked 850, the coffee pot 1888-91, the sugar bowl and tongs 1891-1900, each also with Paris 1900 exposition stamp
The coffee pot 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high; 31 oz. (979 gr.) gross weight (3)
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1891
Comprising a black coffee pot, covered sugar bowl and a pair of sugar tongs; the coffee pot flaring cylindrical on a spreading circular foot, the body inlaid with niello and copper arabesques and stylized flowers, with pierced ogee-shaped rim, the hinged domed cover, handle and spout with conforming niello and copper decoration, the handle with carved cow horn insulators, the cover with cow horn finial, the sugar bowl circular on a circular foot, with two knopped handles and an everted pierced and ogee-shaped rim, the interior silver-gilt, the domed cover with conforming niello and copper decoration and cow horn finial, the sugar tongs also with conforming inlaid decoration and silver-gilt tips, the coffee pot and sugar bowl marked under bases, the tongs marked inside, the coffee pot marked 9930/7200, the sugar bowl marked 9930/3950, the tongs marked 850, the coffee pot 1888-91, the sugar bowl and tongs 1891-1900, each also with Paris 1900 exposition stamp
The coffee pot 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high; 31 oz. (979 gr.) gross weight (3)
Exhibited
Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900
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