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Lot 53
  • 53

An American Silver-gilt Black Coffee Set, Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1890

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on bases, coffee pot numbered 10535-414, stand 10102-7718.  Together with twelve plain circular Saucers, six by Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, RI, 1912, six by Lewis Brothers, New York, circa 1910
  • Silver-gilt
  • height of coffee pot 11 1/2 in., diameter of stand 10 3/4 in.
  • 29.2cm, 27.3cm
the coffee pot of baluster fom with elongated neck, etched and pierced with foliate arabesques, the circular stand etched to match and fitted with eight circular reserves for cups pierced with stylized flowerheads, and central base for coffee pot, sides of the cups pierced with lattice spaced by leaf-tips, six slightly smaller, the white porcelain liners with gilt bands at rims

Condition

wear to high spots of coffee pot, also missing finial, stand and cups good,
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