拍品专文
A larger example was sold in these Rooms, January 26, 1995, lot 335.
细节
A SILVER-MOUNTED IVORY TUSK THERMOMETER MADE FOR THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION**
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1893
The base fluted on four bead feet, the side with alternating foliate decoration, one side of tusk mounted with silver thermometer with wavescroll edge and terminating in foliate decoration, etched with scale of temperatures and Freezing, the other side mounted with scrolling monogram LS; marked under base, 11086/3177
14½in. high
MAKER'S MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, 1893
The base fluted on four bead feet, the side with alternating foliate decoration, one side of tusk mounted with silver thermometer with wavescroll edge and terminating in foliate decoration, etched with scale of temperatures and Freezing, the other side mounted with scrolling monogram LS; marked under base, 11086/3177
14½in. high