This bowl is described in Tiffany's pattern book as "Bowl, Copper inlaid with silver--Aztec" and was finished on August 31, 1905. The factory cost was $905.

A very similar copper and silver bowl made for the Paris Exposition of 1900 and based on a Hupa Indian basket is in the collection of the High Museum, Atlanta, illustrated and discussed in Charles Venable, Silver in America, 1994, color plate 6.66, p.197. Paulding Farnham designed a small number of mixed metal bowls modelled after Indian woven baskets for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Paris Exposition of 1900, and the Buffalo Exposition of 1901. A "Navajo" example of 1893 was sold in these Rooms, October 10, 1987, lot 28, and a "Zuni" example of 1900 is illustrated in Charles H.Carpenter, Jr., Tiffany Silver, 1978, fig. 282, p.211. The related "Hupa" bowl is also illustrated in Janet Zapata "The Rediscovery of Paulding Farnham, Tiffany's Designer Extraordinaire," Antiques, April 1991, pl.VII, p. 724. Farnham also designed a large plateau in the Aztec style for the Columbian Exposition, illustrated in Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., Tiffany Silver, 1978, fig. 280, p.209.

The original drawing for the decoration of this bowl is in the collection of the Tiffany & Co. Archives (a copy of which accompanies the lot).