Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art, Prints, Photographs, Books, and Historical Documents
Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art, Prints, Photographs, Books, and Historical Documents
Lot Closed
January 23, 05:17 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
American Silver and Mixed-Metal Japanesque Pitcher, Tiffany & Co., New York, Circa 1875
the spot-hammered surface and handle applied with trailing gold vines with copper leaves, one copper gourd, and two mokume gourds, the other side with a copper dragonfly with silver wings, also applied with with two silver butterflies, one with copper body, and a copper grasshopper with silver wings, marked on base and numbered 3859-8723, marked at rim with Paris import mark used 1864-93
27 oz
840 g
height 7 3/4 in.
19.8 cm
This pitcher is identical to one that sold Sotheby's New York, January 17, 2019, lot 57. Both bear French import marks.