An American Silver and Mixed-metal "Japanesque" Pitcher, Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1877

of baluster form with spot-hammered surface, the lower body engraved with seaweed, reeds and a snail and applied with schools of copper and white silver swimming fish, the neck engraved with a dragonfly perched on a reed, the loop handle applied near terminals with copper bands from which vines with copper and Japanese gold leaves emerge

A period photograph of this model of pitcher is illustrated by Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.  and Mary Grace Carpenter in Tiffany Silver, p. 166, fig. 263.

very slight wear to high spots of some fish, overall very good condition
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