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Jug #: 919
Origin: America Date: 1884 Artist/Maker: Tiffany Types/Styles: Acid Etched and Art Nouveau An American silver-gilt mounted art nouveau etched glass claret jug, Tiffany & Co., New York, 1884. The waisted pear-shaped glass body etched with a trellis pattern, a coat of arms, a crest of a castle in flames, and the monogram EFS, mounted at the midband and neck with high-relief trailing grapevine on a trellis, the domed, hinged cover with pierced thumbpiece, engraved underneath, the handle with scrolls on a textured ground and an exotic flower at the lower terminal, marked on underside of lid and numbered 8032-4728. Ht. 14-1/2". |
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