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S.J. Shrubsole
Tiffany & Co.
An American Japanesque Silver and Mixed-Metal Coffee Pot
An American Japanesque Silver and Mixed-Metal Coffee Pot
Height: 10 7/8"
description
This gourd-shaped coffee pot is one of the more unusual and beautiful forms of Tiffany mixed-metals hollowware from the late 1870s.
The design is by Edward C. Moore, the firm's design director, who drew on his extensive collection of Asian and Middle Eastern decorative arts for inspiration. He was the subject of Collecting Inspiration, a recent exhibition at the Met, which included an almost identical example made for the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle.
The design is by Edward C. Moore, the firm's design director, who drew on his extensive collection of Asian and Middle Eastern decorative arts for inspiration. He was the subject of Collecting Inspiration, a recent exhibition at the Met, which included an almost identical example made for the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle.
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