About This Artwork

Tiffany and Company
American, founded 1837
Eugene J. Soligny (chasing of candelabra)
c. 1833-1901

Candelabra (one of a pair), 1873

Silver
77.4 x 43.2 cm (30 1/2 x 17 in.)
Marked under base "TIFFANY AND CO." (in a convex rectangle)/"3180"/ "Quality 925.1000" (in rectangle)/ gothic "M" (in oval)/"5200"/ "UNION SQUARE" (in convex rectangle); Marked on underside of one foot: "No.1"; Signed on proper left side of base on each candelabrum: "EJ" (conjoined) and "S"
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson Fund, 1985.221a

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Dallas Museum of Art, "A Century of Splendor: Silver in America, 1840-1940," November 6, 1994-January 29, 1995.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 220-223, no. 103.