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Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art, Prints, Photographs, Books, and Historical Documents

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American Silver and Mixed-Metal Japanesque Pitcher, Tiffany & Co., New York, Circa 1875

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.