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AN AMERICAN SILVER AND ENAMEL COFFEE POT FROM THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893**
Lot 247 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION

AN AMERICAN SILVER AND ENAMEL COFFEE POT FROM THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893**

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1893

Closed22 May 2008

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AN AMERICAN SILVER AND ENAMEL COFFEE POT FROM THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893**
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1893
Flaring cylindrical on a spreading circular foot, the body etched with Islamic-style arabesques, partly inlaid with champlevé shaded enamel in shades of buff, pale blue, pale green and red, pink and purple, the curved handle with similar decoration and carved ivory insulators, the hinged domed cover with similar decoration and green hardstone finial, marked under base, also marked 9930T3009, and marked with Columbian exposition mark, in wood case
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high; 20 oz. (570 gr.) gross weight

Specialist note

This black "after-dinner" coffee pot was one of eight exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, all with varying design motifs and shades of "...dull enamels with effaced colors, its deaf harmony seeming to suit the subdued tone of oxidized silver." The ornate decoration on such an ordinary object transfixed one viewer, causing him to wonder "...whether the aroma of the coffee does not exhaust itself in so handsome a coffee-pot." (see John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, 2001, p. 193.) Another pot sold in these Rooms, 21 January 2000, lot 259.