A MONUMENTAL SILVER FLAGON MADE FOR THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION

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A MONUMENTAL SILVER FLAGON MADE FOR THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1893

Tapering cylindrical, on four double-hoof feet with ram's heads above, the lower body chased with frolicking putti playing instruments amidst grapevine on a matted ground, the elaborate scroll handle with pendant grapes, the molded rim with chased grapevine below, the double bulbous hinged cover with gadrooned rim and foliage, with bud finial and double-bud bifurcated thumbpiece, marked under base, 10341/1416
25in. high
(157oz. 10dwt.)
来源
Katherine Medill McCormick, of Chicago, patron of the Columbian Exposition of 1893
Col. Robert R. McCormick, son, publisher of the Chicago Tribune
A.M. Kennedy, Sunday Editor of the Chicago Tribune, received as gilt from Mrs. Robert R. McCormick; thence by descent to the present owners
展览
The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893