Compote

c. 1882

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 (Designer)
Title: Compote
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. 1882
Medium: Silver and silver gilt
Inscriptions: Marked on interior of foot rim: TIFFANY & CO / 6873 M 4816 / 2 2113
Dimensions: 12.7 × 20.4 × 20.4 cm (5 3/4 × 8 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. William B. McIlvaine Jr.
Reference Number: 1983.18
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John Loring, “Magnificent Tiffany Silver,” (Abrams,2001), p. 169.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 61 (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. 61 (ill.).

Lillian Nassau, New York, by 1983; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

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