A RARE SILVER-GILT AND PLIQUE-A-JOUR BONBON SPOON
A RARE SILVER-GILT AND PLIQUE-A-JOUR BONBON SPOON

MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1891-1902

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A RARE SILVER-GILT AND PLIQUE-A-JOUR BONBON SPOON
Maker's mark of Tiffany & Co., New York, 1891-1902
The shaped oval bowl elaborately pierced with scrolling foliage and roses, the reeded handle with entwined foliage and lyre-shaped terminal, the terminal and rim of bowl with plique-a-jour enamel borders; marked on reverse of bowl
12in long; gross weight 11oz.

拍品專文

A silver bonbon spoon, also by Tiffany & Co., circa 1890, sold in these Rooms, January 27, 1996, lot 62.

A similar silver bonbon spoon is pictured on the cover of Silver Magazine, January/February 1998. Nancy Impastato's article in the same issue, p. 20, discusses the history of decorative bonbon spoons made in America at the turn of the century.