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Lot 130
A ROYAL CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN MONOGRAMMED PARCEL-GILT PART DESSERT AND COFFEE SERVICE
DATE CYPHERS FOR 1912, PUCE PRINTED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARKS, IMPRESSED DERBY 12-II, PUCE RETAILER'S MARKS FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, THE GILDING BY GEORGE HEMSTOCK AND JOHN DALE
Closed15 April 2011
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USD 21,250
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Specialist note
This elaborate service was commissioned by Tiffany & Co. for James Deering and took over a year and half to complete. It was worked on by a team of the best gilders at the factory, including George Hemstock and John Dale. See J. Twitchett and B. Bailey, Royal Crown Derby, New York, 1976, p. 53.
James Deering was a businessman, socialite and the owner of the renowned Vizcaya estate in Coconut Grove, Miami, where he spent his winters from 1916 until his death in 1925. He also owned homes in New York, Paris and Evanston, Illinois. In 1906 he received the Légion d'honneur in France for his promotion of agricultural technology there.
James Deering was a businessman, socialite and the owner of the renowned Vizcaya estate in Coconut Grove, Miami, where he spent his winters from 1916 until his death in 1925. He also owned homes in New York, Paris and Evanston, Illinois. In 1906 he received the Légion d'honneur in France for his promotion of agricultural technology there.