Live Auction 2447Important English, Continental and American Silver and Gold
AN AMERICAN SILVER SEVEN-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
Lot 238 Property of a Midwest Collector

AN AMERICAN SILVER SEVEN-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1869-75

Closed17 May 2011

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AN AMERICAN SILVER SEVEN-PIECE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1869-75
Ivy pattern, comprising kettle-on-stand, coffee pot, hot milk pot, teapot, sugar bowl, waste bowl, and cream jug; each squat circular, with chased ivy, the domed cover with conforming decoration and bud finial, the kettle, coffee pot and teapot with ivory insulators, each engraved with a crest, each marked under base, also marked 1878/4979, 2243/4980, 1752/36, 2243/5341, 2243/5341, 2243/4980, 2243/5341, respectively
The kettle-on-stand 13½ in. (34 cm.) high; 165 oz. (5,142 gr.) gross weight (7)

Specialist note

The Ivy Pattern tea and coffee service was designed and introduced in 1869, and is representitive of the high quality and craftsmanship of Tiffany silver at the end of the nineteenth century. See Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Tiffany Silver, 1997, pp. 62-65.