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A FINE SILVER AND ENAMEL PRESENTATION VASE
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1889-1892
In the Persian taste; lobed baluster, the body etched with arabesques, foliage and paterae with undulating borders, the leaves and paterae with matte-finished and shaded enamelling, the sides applied with three cylindrical handles pierced with arabesques, the flaring rim with etched inscription: Valentine Everit Macy, March Twenty third 1892., the interior gilt, marked under base, 10017/7478
9¼in. high
(gross weight 73oz. 10dwt.)
来源
Valentine Everit Macy (1871-1930), capitalist, philanthropist, and collector of Persian and oriental art, of New York; thence by descent to the present owner
This cup was presented to Valentine Macy on his twenty-first birthday in 1892. At the time, Macy was a student in Columbia University's College of Architecture, and received his degree in 1893. Macy's interest in eastern art was apparently established by the time he visited the far east on his wedding trip in 1896. The fact that the present cup is in the Persian style suggests that Macy had an influence in its design. This cup, the only one of this pattern recorded in Tiffany's archives, originally cost $950. Macy's collection of Persian miniatures and oriental porcelain is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Macy moved to Westchester County, where he served as Commissioner of Charities and Corrections, and as President of the Park Commission.
