Love Cup

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1900

Tiffany and Company (American, founded 1837)
New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Tiffany and Company
Title: Love Cup
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.: 1900
Medium: Silver and copper
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: Tiffany & Co. / 14478 Makers 3188 / Sterling Silver / 925-1000 / T / 9 Pints Engraved on neck of base: MHD and EGR
Dimensions: 31.8 × 21.8 cm (12 1/2 × 8 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Harold T. Martin
Reference Number: 1978.442
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John Loring, “Magnificent Tiffany Silver,” (Abrams,2001), p. 214.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 67 (ill.).
“Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver and Prints,” Christie’s, New York, Sale Cat. 16796, January 17–18, 2019, p. 54.
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. 67 (ill.).

New–York Historical Society, Tiffany Silver, Mar. 4–June 1, 1980.
Dallas Museum of Art, A Century of Splendor: Silver in America, 1840–1940, Nov. 6, 1994–Jan. 29, 1995, 195, 341, fig. 6.31 (ill.); Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Mar. 12–May 21, 1995; Milwaukee Art Museum, June 13–Aug. 13, 1995; Delaware, Winterthur Museum, Sept. 9, 1995–Jan. 7, 1996.

Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (1882-1973) and Marcellus Hartley Dodge (1881-1963, m. 1907), New York, NY and Mount Vernon, New Jersey; with Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 1975, lot 122 (ill.); with Maurice Freeman, New York, by 1978; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Cat. 67 Love Cup, 1900

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