Return to Elegance: The Star Collection
Return to Elegance: The Star Collection
Lot Closed
October 20, 03:20 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
AN AMERICAN SILVER MARINE THEME TABLE GARNITURE: A PAIR OF NINE-LIGHT CANDELABRA AND A PAIR OF CENTERPIECE BOWLS, TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES OSBORNE, CIRCA 1883
spot-hammered, chased with mermaids and sea gods and applied with seaweed, the interiors silver-gilt, each with a decorative etched presentation inscription, the bowls with silver-gilt liners with flower grille
marked under bases, the candelabra also stamped 7380/9159/2533, the bowls stamped 7338/9159/1975/2518, the liners stamped 7358/2186
360 oz excluding grids
11196 g
height of candelabra 15⅞ in.; diameter of bowls 12⅛ in.
40.3 cm; 30.8 cm
Christie's, New York, October 23, 2013, lot 178
The design of these vigorous aquatic pieces can be attributed to Charles Osborne, being particularly close to the Fitch punch bowl, designed 1881, and to the 1885 Goelet Cup (see John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, 2001, pp. 152-3 and 179).
A similar pair of candelabra by Tiffany from The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver was sold Sotheby's, New York, June 20, 1996 lot 20.