AN AMERICAN SILVER LARGE WATER PITCHER

AN AMERICAN SILVER LARGE WATER PITCHER
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1890
The ovoid body raised on a short spreading foot applied with flowerheads, the neck partly chased with sweeping lobes and applied with grapes and scrolling grapevine, the conforming up-swung loop handle terminating in a bacchic mask, engraved on one side with initials PH, underside later engraved Hunt Phelan Jan. 1930, marked on base rim
15 7/8 in. (40.2 cm.) high
73 oz. 6 dwt. (2,280 gr.)