Edward Chandler Moore
Coffee and Tea Service

RetailerNew York, established 1837
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Coffee and Tea Service
Datec. 1856–1859
Made inNew York , New York, United States
Retailed inNew York , New York, United States
MediumSilver and ivory
DimensionsVarious dimensions

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Strange, Sr.
Object numberB.91.37.1-.4
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Kilroy Center
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

John Chandler Moore wholesaled silver to Tiffany, Young and Ellis, along with William Bogert, Henry Hebbard, John Polhamus, and others. In 1851 Moore and his son Edward entered into an arrangement whereby they would manufacture exclusively for the Tiffany firm. The Bayou Bend tea service, a composite of Baroque and Rococo motifs, incorporates an allover ivy pattern. Seventeen years after the agreement, Tiffany purchased the Moore factory outright, making Edward C. Moore a principal stockholder and appointing him general manager with responsibility for overseeing the company’s production.

Technical notes: The bodies and necks of all four vessels are spun. The vented finials are soldered on. 

Related examples: Skinner, sale 1401, September 27–28, 1991, lot 80; Christie’s, New York, sale 7624, January 22, 1993, lot 183; Christie’s, sale 7830, January 21, 1994, lot 12; Christie’s, sale 8696, June 17, 1997, lot 34.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff.  American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


Provenance[William Core Duffy, Kittery Point, Maine]; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
On base: Mark of Edward Chandler Moore [Carpenter and Carpenter 1978, p. 249, no. 10]

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