Pueblo Vase

Public Domain

Arts of the Americas

1893

George Paulding Farnham (American, 1859–1927)
Tiffany and Company (American, founded 1837)
New York

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: George Paulding Farnham
Title: Pueblo Vase
Place: New York City (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1893
Medium: Sterling silver inlaid with yellow, green, and pink enamel, set with twelve faceted rubies
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: TIFFANY & CO. / 11181T3169 / STERLING Engraved on body: Souvenir of America from Nellie
Dimensions: 6.4 × 9.2 × 9.2 cm (2 1/2 × 3 5/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Crab Tree Farm Foundation
Reference Number: 2015.418
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Charles L. Venable, “Silver in America, 1840–1940: A Century of Splendor” (Abrams, 1994) p. 346 (ill.)
Judith A. Barter, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890-1940, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York and Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2003), 50–51, cat. 94, fig. 6 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 66 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 66 (ill.).

Dallas Museum of Art, Silver in America: A Century of Splendor, 1840–1940, November 6, 1994–January 29, 1995, fig. 6.65 (ill.).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, March 12–May 21, 1995.
Milwaukee (WI) Museum of Art, June 18–August 13, 1995.
Wilmington, DE, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, September 9, 1995–January 7, 1996 (lent by William Hill Land and Cattle Co. Collection).
Art Institute of Chicago, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940, June 10–Oct. 16, 2003, cat. 93.
Palm Beach, FL, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Tiffany at the World’s Columbian Exposition, January 17–April 16, 2006, p. 99 (ill.)

With Slavid and Applegate Antiques, Dayville, Conneticut; sold to William J. Hill, Houston, 1985; William Hill Land and Cattle Co. Collection, by 1997; with Christie’s 1997, lot 19; sold to Crab Tree Farm Foundation with Timothy Gleason as agent, 1997; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

Cat. 66 Pueblo Vase, 1893

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