TIFFANY & CO.

Lot 420
10.06.2022 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 94 500
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ID 773236
Lot 420 | TIFFANY & CO.
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$ 40 000 – 60 000
TIFFANY & CO.
Rare and Important Six-Piece Tea and Coffee Service, commissioned by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her husband Harry Paine Whitney for the marriage of their niece, Emily Frances Whitney to Allan Lindsay Briggs, circa 1910
designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York
silver
comprising: a kettle on lampstand, a teapot, a coffee pot, a creamer, a two-handled sugar bowl and cover, a waste bowl, a similar two-handled tray and a similar circular salver
the kettle on lampstand: 12 3⁄4 in. (32.4 cm.) high
each engraved with monogram EFW, tea and coffee set marked TIFFANY STUDIOS 925⁄1000 and numbered 1842, the tray and salver marked Tiffany & Co., tray numbered 6905-6320, salver numbered 5765-4374
with custom Garden Museum Collection case
351 oz. 18 dwt. (10,944 gr.) gross weight




Provenance

Emily Frances Whitney and Allan Lindsay Briggs, commissioned by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her husband Harry Paine Whitney from Tiffany & Co., circa 1910
Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., Connecticut
The Charles H. Carpenter Jr. Collection: 19th Century American Silver, Christie's, New York, 20 January 1994, lot 53
The Garden Museum Collection, Matsue, Japan
Allen Michaan, California, acquired from the above, 2012



Literature

C.H. Carpenter Jr. and M. G. Carpenter, Tiffany Silver, New York, 1978, pp. 47-50, fig. 47-49 and p. 265, fig. 319 (present lot illustrated)
"The Silver of Louis Comfort Tiffany", The Magazines Antiques, New York, February 1980, p. 391, pl. ii
C. H. Carpenter, The Silver of Tiffany & Co., Boston, 1987
T. Horiuchi, A Selection of 300 Works from Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, Japan, 2001, p. 157, no. 227 (present lot illustrated)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 438-439 (present lot illustrated)



Exhibited

New York, New York, New York Historical Society, Tiffany Silver, 1980
New York, New York, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Design in the Service of Tea, August - October 1984
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, The Silver of Tiffany & Co., 1850-1987, 1987
Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Revelations of True Beauty, 1989
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