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拍品專文
This dish is a masterwork of the Japanese technique of mixing metal to imitate woodgrain, called mokume-hada. The typical Japanese formula for this work consists of hammering soldered layers of gold, silver, and the copper alloys shibuichi, shakudo, and kuromi. Small appliqués of mokume appear on Tiffany's best mixed-metal holloware in the Japanese taste. This bowl is a rare and technically difficult example of pure mokume. The mark is engraved rather than struck undoubtedly to protect the bond between the various metals.
Few examples of Tiffany's cabinet pieces in pure mokume are known. Works include: a cigarette case and matchbox at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a tea caddy at the New York Historical Society, a puff box at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and a vase exhibited at the 1878 Paris Exposition. Edward C. Moore, Tiffany's design director from 1869 to 1891, is credited with the adaptation of this Japanese technique. Moore owned several examples of Japanese mokume in his personal collection which he bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Only later were mokume pieces created on a much larger scale, including a vase of 32 inches, exhibited at the 1889 Paris Exposition, now in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the 1904 Ptarmigan Vases (24 ½ in. high) one sold Sotheby’s, New York 20-21 January 2011 lot 114, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada and the second sold 20-21 January 2012, lot 52. For an in-depth discussion of Tiffany's mokume work, see Francis Gruber Safford and Ruth Wilford Caccavale, "Japanese Silver by Tiffany & Company in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Antiques (October, 1987), plates VI, VII, VIII, pp. 816-817.
Few examples of Tiffany's cabinet pieces in pure mokume are known. Works include: a cigarette case and matchbox at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a tea caddy at the New York Historical Society, a puff box at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and a vase exhibited at the 1878 Paris Exposition. Edward C. Moore, Tiffany's design director from 1869 to 1891, is credited with the adaptation of this Japanese technique. Moore owned several examples of Japanese mokume in his personal collection which he bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Only later were mokume pieces created on a much larger scale, including a vase of 32 inches, exhibited at the 1889 Paris Exposition, now in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the 1904 Ptarmigan Vases (24 ½ in. high) one sold Sotheby’s, New York 20-21 January 2011 lot 114, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada and the second sold 20-21 January 2012, lot 52. For an in-depth discussion of Tiffany's mokume work, see Francis Gruber Safford and Ruth Wilford Caccavale, "Japanese Silver by Tiffany & Company in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Antiques (October, 1987), plates VI, VII, VIII, pp. 816-817.