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1893 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION: TWO AMERICAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER 'INDIAN SPOONS'
Lot 898

1893 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION: TWO AMERICAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER 'INDIAN SPOONS'

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1893, DESIGNED BY CHARLES GROSJEAN

Closed18 January 2019

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1893 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION: TWO AMERICAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER 'INDIAN SPOONS'
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1893, DESIGNED BY CHARLES GROSJEAN
Comprising one 'Beggar Dance' spoon with enamel shield and moccasins and one 'Buffalo Dance' spoon, both with gilt bowls decorated on both sides with geometric ornament, the undersides of bowls with cast buffalo head where joins stems, bowls engraved with script monogram ECS, marked on reverse of handles, numbered 608 and with 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition mark
8 in. (20.3 cm.) long
6 oz. 2 dwt. (190 gr.)

Specialist note

The 'Indian Spoon' series was designed by Charles Grosjean in 1885 and a complete service was ordered by William Randolph Hearst in 1927. The figural flatware was inspired by George Catlin's Illustrations of North American Indians and objects in the National Museum, Washington, D.C. The series is depicted in William P. Hood, Jr., Tiffany Silver Flatware 1845-1905: When Dining Was an Art, 1999, illus. pp. 259-61.