Tiffany & Co.
Dessert or Soup Spoon

MakerNew York, established 1837
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Dessert or Soup Spoon
Date20th century
Made inNew York, New York, United States
MediumSilver
Dimensions7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of the estate of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.78.57
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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Edward Chandler Moore was one of nineteenth-century America’s principal silver designers and is largely credited with the phenomenal success of Tiffany’s flatware. Between 1869 and 1889 he patented ten different designs, including this one—the Palm pattern—which was patented on July 4, 1871.

Related examples: The rest of this service belongs to the Governor’s Mansion, Austin, Texas.

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.


ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; Estate of Miss Ima Hogg, 1975; given to MFAH, 1978.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Engraved: WCH [William Clifford Hogg]
Marked: TIFFANY&CO; STERLING; PAT 1871; M. [See also Carpenter and Carpenter 1978, p. 256, no. 36]

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