Tiffany & Company (American, founded 1853). Sugar Bowl With Cover, ca. 1878. Silver and other metals, 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 in. (14.6 x 19.1 x 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Lewis, 86.242.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.242.1_bw.jpg)
Tiffany & Company (American, founded 1853). Sugar Bowl With Cover, ca. 1878. Silver and other metals, 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 in. (14.6 x 19.1 x 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Lewis, 86.242.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.242.1_transp2875.jpg)
Sugar Bowl With Cover
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
MEDIUM
Silver and other metals
DATES
ca. 1878
DIMENSIONS
5 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 in. (14.6 x 19.1 x 12.7 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
"TIFFANY & Co 4872 MAKERS 5701 / STERLING-SILVER / -AND- / OTHER METALS / 138 / M"
Scratch Marks on bottom: "19/IV-; 1050 466; 8404"
On rim of bowl and lid: "ET in small stamp (French import marks)"
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
86.242.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Lewis
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Sugar bowl and cover. Squat spherical form rises from simple foot rim to short neck; two up-turning D-shaped handles, each with flaring mid rib; domed lid terminates in copper eggplant finial. Surface of bowl and lid is hand-hammered; both lid and bowl wrapped with applied silver vines and leaves with copper; bowl wrapped with applied silver vines and leaves with copper and "marbleized" metal eggplants and gold blossoms. Scattered on surface of bowl are: "marbleized" butterfly, silver bug, silver leaping frog (on a leaf); on lid: silver and copper butterfly, silver and copper dragonfly. Around applied ornament are areas of pitting (in imitation of rough-cast bronze?). Gilt interiors.
CONDITION: Minor wear, but excellent.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
CAPTION
Tiffany & Company (American, founded 1853). Sugar Bowl With Cover, ca. 1878. Silver and other metals, 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 in. (14.6 x 19.1 x 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Lewis, 86.242.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.242.1_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 86.242.1_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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