Live Auction 16796Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver and Prints
AN AMERICAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER VASE
Lot 820

AN AMERICAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER VASE

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880

Closed18 January 2019

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AN AMERICAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER VASE
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
Of pear shape, the body with spot-hammered surface, applied with a spider, seed pods and Japanese gold maple leaves and beetle, the neck with a scarab beetle, underside engraved 11-F-S, marked on underside and numbered 3567-2401, 495, neck with French import mark

7 7/8 in. (20 cm.)
9 oz. 6 dwt. (289 gr.)

Christie’s, New York, 16 February 1983, lot 314.

Specialist note

Tiffany and Co. created two sizes of this vase, of which this is the larger size. They are referred to as "china shape" in Tiffany's silver pattern books. According to the Tiffany archives, the design for this vase dates to 1879. Another vase of similar shape, applied with maple leaves, a butterfly and dragonfly sold at Christie's, New York, 20 January 1990, lot 65.