AN AMERICAN SILVER AND CUT-GLASS RENAISSANCE PATTERN CENTERPIECE, DESIGNED BY PAULDING FARNHAM FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1905
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January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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AN AMERICAN SILVER AND CUT-GLASS RENAISSANCE PATTERN CENTERPIECE, DESIGNED BY PAULDING FARNHAM FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1905
with a silver-mounted glass base, the stem applied with four demi-cherubs and supporting an openwork silver basket of strapwork enclosing fruit baskets and caryatid figures, with winged figure handles, the fluted glass bowl cut with flower-urns between dolphins
marked on base and numbered 16189-785
length over handles 16 in.
40.7 cm
Paulding Farnham designed a monumental Renaissance pattern 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). The service was so successful that Tiffany introduced additional hollowware forms and a flatware line in the Renaissance pattern the following year.