Tiffany & Co.
An American Antique Japonisme Parcel Gilt Vase, c. 1876
Height: 7.5 in. (19.05 cm.)
Weight: 12 oz. 1 dwt.
New York, N.Y.
V9692
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Of cylindrical form on four bamboo form feet flanked by gilt flowers, the body decorated in black and brown niello with fish and crabs in an underwater scene, stamped Tiffany...
Of cylindrical form on four bamboo form feet flanked by gilt flowers, the body decorated in black and brown niello with fish and crabs in an underwater scene, stamped Tiffany & Co / 2983 makers 5284 925-1000 M.
Literature:
John Loring, “Magnificent Tiffany Silver”, 2001, p. 132 (for a similar model shown at the Centenary of the Philadelphia Universal Exhibition 1876).
Edward Moore (1827-1891) was the son of a goldsmith and goldsmith himself and joined Tiffany in 1851. He developed his personal style only in the 1860s, influenced by the Orientalist fashion and the publication by Owen Jones ‘The Grammar of Ornament’. In 1867 during the Universal Exhibition in Paris , Tiffany exhibited a ‘Mauresque’ tea service for which they were awarded a bronze medal. It is there that Moore discovered the first objects in Japanese style and acquired a few pieces for his private collection which by then included objects from the Middle East and Asia as well as antiquities and constituted his main source of inspiration. In 1871 he showed his first sketch in Japanese style which then became Tiffany’s iconic creation, to which the present vase evidently relates and can thus be dated around this early production period.
Literature:
John Loring, “Magnificent Tiffany Silver”, 2001, p. 132 (for a similar model shown at the Centenary of the Philadelphia Universal Exhibition 1876).
Edward Moore (1827-1891) was the son of a goldsmith and goldsmith himself and joined Tiffany in 1851. He developed his personal style only in the 1860s, influenced by the Orientalist fashion and the publication by Owen Jones ‘The Grammar of Ornament’. In 1867 during the Universal Exhibition in Paris , Tiffany exhibited a ‘Mauresque’ tea service for which they were awarded a bronze medal. It is there that Moore discovered the first objects in Japanese style and acquired a few pieces for his private collection which by then included objects from the Middle East and Asia as well as antiquities and constituted his main source of inspiration. In 1871 he showed his first sketch in Japanese style which then became Tiffany’s iconic creation, to which the present vase evidently relates and can thus be dated around this early production period.