About This Artwork

Tiffany and Company
American, founded 1837

Punch Bowl, 1873

Silver
41.9 x diam. 67.3 cm (16 1/2 x diam. 26 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions, marked under each base: "TIFFANY AND CO." (in a convex rectangle)/"2379"/ "Quality 925.1000" (in rectangle)/ gothic "M" (in oval)/"5200"/ "UNION SQUARE" (in convex rectangle); marked on underside of one foot: "No. 1"; inscribed: "The United States of America/Viscount d'Itajubá/His Majesty, the Emperor of Brazil/Article 1 of the Treaty Between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty/ Concluded at Washington May 8, 1871 as a Mark of Their Appreciation of the/ Dignity, Learning, Ability and Impartiality with Which He Discharged His Arduous Duties at/ Geneva"
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson Fund, 1985.221c

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.