American silver and cut-glass Renaissance Revival pattern centerpiece mounted on a mirror plateau, designed by Paulding Farnham for Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1905

en suite with preceding, the openwork strapwork base hung with fruit swags and centered by a cartouche on each side engraved with arms, crest and motto, with winged putti flanking the central stem supporting a screw-on silver-mounted cut-glass vase, the mounts with male and female caryatid figures at intervals, flanked by two silver baskets topped by winged female figures and supporting cut-glass bowls, all screwed on to an oval mirror plateau with a matched silver rim

one basket with repairs where winged female figure attached, some neat repairs on one side where fruit swags attach to central base, mounts on central vase with ding to nose of one male caryatid, one glass bowl with chip to rim, the other bowl with two chips to rim, the mirror with some discoloration, otherwise in good condition
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The arms are those of Bolle or Bolles. Paulding Farnham designed a monumental Renaissance Revival tea and coffee service for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The winged female figures that form the handles were based on similar figures by the artist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497?-1543), an artist Farnham must have admired as he also produced a piece of jewelry after a Holbein design. The service was so successful that Tiffany introduced additional hollow ware forms and a flatware line in the Renaissance Revival pattern the following year.