Coffee Pot

1881–89

Design attributed to Charles Osborne
American, 1847–1920
Tiffany and Company
American, founded 1837
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 273
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Charles Osborne
Title: Coffee Pot
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.: c. 1881–1889
Medium: Silver, pearls, chalcedony, and ivory
Dimensions: 19.1 × 7.6 × 12.7 cm (7 1/2 × 3 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, Mrs. Lester Armour, Mrs. George B. Young, and an anonymous donor
Reference Number: 1978.142
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Henry Hawley, “Tiffany’s Silver in the Japanese Taste” Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (October 1976) p. 243.
Tom Armstrong, “The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago” Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (October 1988), 822–835 (ill.).
Annelies Krekel–Aalberse, “Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver” (New York: Abrams, 1989), 99, 105 (ill.)..
John Loring, “Magnificent Tiffany Silver,” (Abrams,2001), 176.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 60 (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. 60 (ill.).

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Museum of Art, From Slave to Siren: The Victorian Woman and her Jewelry, from Neoclassical to Art Nouveau, May 1971, cat. 92.
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre–Raphaelite Era, 1848–1914, Apr. 12–June 6, 1976, cat. 7–24.
New York Historical Society, Tiffany Silver Exhibition, Mar. 4–June 1, 1980.
Glencoe, Chicago Botanic Garden, 1890….No Little Dreams, June 21–Oct. 28, 1981, no cat.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Silver of Tiffany & Co. 1850–1987, Sept. 9–Nov. 8, 1987, cat. 43.

Auction, United Kingdom, c. 1969; sold to Dora Jane Janson (born Heineberg) (Mrs. Horst W.) (1916-2002), c. 1969; with Lillian Nassau, New York, by 1978; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Cat. 60 Coffeepot, 1881/89

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