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AN UNUSUAL AMERICAN SILVER THREE-PIECE TEA SET
Lot 819

AN UNUSUAL AMERICAN SILVER THREE-PIECE TEA SET

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

Fermé18 January 2019

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USD 11,250

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AN UNUSUAL AMERICAN SILVER THREE-PIECE TEA SET
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
Comprising a teapot, a covered sugar bowl and a cream jug, all of tomato-form, the spot-hammered bodies applied with Japanese beetles amid vines bearing tomatoes, the cream jug and sugar bowl with twig-form handles, the covers with tomato vine finials, cream jug and sugar bowl with gilt interiors, marked on undersides, teapot numbered 5175-1781, sugar bowl and cream jug 5176-1781
9 in. (22.8 cm.) long, over handle (the teapot)
30 oz. 14 dwt. (955 gr.) gross weight

With Fortunoff, New York.

Note du spécialiste

This tea set is recorded in the Tiffany & Co. pattern books as "Tete a Tete Set (Tomato Shape)". A three-piece mixed-metal version of this model was sold Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 2016, lot 700.