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Vase (USA)

This is a vase. It was produced by Tiffany and Co.. It is dated 1889 and we acquired it in 1976. Its medium is silver, gold, copper, and mixed metals. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Exhibited by Tiffany & Co. at the Paris International Exposition of 1889, this vase represents a rare example of the mokumé technique of mixing metals to look like marbling or wood graining. Developed centuries before in Japan, this difficult technique was mastered by metalsmiths at Tiffany & Co. for use in decorative tablewares.

This object was donated by Mrs. M. Allison Coudert. It is credited Gift of the daughters of Louis deBébian Moore.

Object ID #18800005
brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper.
Museum Purchase.
1982-50-1

A decorative, rosewood, upholstered chair. The chair has two thin tapered legs decorated with scrolls at the front and two rectangular straight legs at the back. It has a carved seat back with a floral panel created from inlaid paler wood at the top, geometric cut out sections in the middle, and golden column-like sections in the rectangular seat supports. The seat itself is upholstered with golden silk that is decorated with a repeating floral motif in white, deep purple, brown, peach and pale blue. It is supported underneath with eight wooden strips four of which, one the left and right side, have a small panel with three holes between them.

Mark Hopkins House Side Chair
rosewood, inlaid and veneered with various woods, silk (of the period but not....
2010-5-1

Matchsafe (USA)
hammered silver, copper, brass.
Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
1980-14-1296

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favrile glass.
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1984-108-1

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gold, silver, copper, nickel silver (argentan).
The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
2016-34-82

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 50.2 x 23.5 cm (19 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Vase (USA); Produced by Tiffany and Co. (United States); silver, gold, copper, and mixed metals; H x diam.: 50.2 x 23.5 cm (19 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.); Gift of the daughters of Louis deBébian Moore; 1976-58-1-a/f

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Passion for the Exotic: Japonism and Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CLNv/
Accession Number 1976-58-1-a/f
Object ID 18491241