MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., MILAN, SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY

Tiffany's design director Van Day Truex based the design (circa 1969) of the present lot on Karl Blossfeldt’s 1920s photograph of the fruit of Blumenbachia hieronymi, a rare Argentinean loasa. Truex studied art in Paris where he surely encountered the Surrealist fascination for Blossfeldt’s photographs of unusual forms. An example of this bowl is illustrated in John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, 2001, p. 251.