THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 1893: A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER NINE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1893

Details

THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 1893: A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER NINE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1893
the circular domed base partially lobed and raised on four paw feet headed by large scrolling acanthus leaves spaced by applied grape bunches, with eight scrolling branches, the branches terminating in fixed shaped circular drip pans cast with scrolls and campana-form sconces, detachable nozzles, marked on underside and numbered 10689-3924, and with mark for 1893 Colombian Exposition
23 ¾ in. (60.3 cm.) high; 315 oz. (9,979 gr.)

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 January, 2011, lot 131

Sale room notice

Please note this lot is no longer subject to a reserve

Lot Essay

The style probably originated with Charles Grosjean, as on his Chrysanthemum candelabra or made for the Vanderbilt family (John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, 2001, pp. 141-142), however the current lot, designed two years after his death in 1888, show how much the aesthetic had been fully embraced by Tiffany. Another example can be seen on the "George III Centerpiece" shown at the Columbian Exposition, of which a period photograph was reproduced in Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, 2006, pp. 29, 125.

More from Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver

View All