Tiffany & Co.
An American Silver and Enamel Coffee Pot from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, 1893
Height: 9.63 in.
Weight: 18 oz. 5 dwt.
New York, N.Y.
H0802
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Marked under base: Tiffany & Co. 9930T3009 Sterling, with Tiffany’s special globe mark below for the Columbian World Exposition. Literature: John M. Blades and John Loring, “Tiffany at the World's...
Marked under base: Tiffany & Co. 9930T3009 Sterling, with Tiffany’s special globe mark below for the Columbian World Exposition.
Literature:
John M. Blades and John Loring, “Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition”, 2006, shown in a photograph on page 35 of one of the exhibits, listed on p. 126.
This black "after-dinner" coffee pot was one of eight exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, all with varying design motifs and shades of "...dull enamels with effaced colors, its deaf harmony seeming to suit the subdued tone of oxidized silver." The ornate decoration on such an ordinary object transfixed one viewer, causing him to wonder "...whether the aroma of the coffee does not exhaust itself in so handsome a coffee-pot."
This piece has been authorized for sale by the DEC (Identification number 29-7 issued 11-30-20) indicating that it and the the ivory incorporated in it has been accepted as an antique, and can be sold interstate and intrastate in New York.
Literature:
John M. Blades and John Loring, “Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition”, 2006, shown in a photograph on page 35 of one of the exhibits, listed on p. 126.
This black "after-dinner" coffee pot was one of eight exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, all with varying design motifs and shades of "...dull enamels with effaced colors, its deaf harmony seeming to suit the subdued tone of oxidized silver." The ornate decoration on such an ordinary object transfixed one viewer, causing him to wonder "...whether the aroma of the coffee does not exhaust itself in so handsome a coffee-pot."
This piece has been authorized for sale by the DEC (Identification number 29-7 issued 11-30-20) indicating that it and the the ivory incorporated in it has been accepted as an antique, and can be sold interstate and intrastate in New York.