Pair of Gold and Enamel Cufflinks, Tiffany & Co.

Designed with orchids painted in vibrant hues of pink, purple and white enamel, within scrollwork frames, gross weight approximately 7 dwts, signed Tiffany & Co.; circa 1895. With signed and fitted box.

In good condition with some minor evidence of discoloration and patination to the gold mainly around the filigree work, commensurate with age. Some light scratching to the enamel, but otherwise intact and in very good condition. Length approximately 1 1/8 inches.
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These cufflinks, likely designed by Paulding Farnham, are a wearable take on the orchid brooches that he designed for the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. While the species of the orchid is unknown, the painting could have been based on a watercolor Farnham painted of the hybrid Calanthe veitchii during his exhaustive study of orchids during the late 1880s. This watercolor is illustrated on page 208 of Bejewelled Tiffany 1837-1987, edited by Clare Phillips.