Tiffany Silver

ISBN: 0396083382

Author: Mary Grace Carpenter

Condition: Used

The nineteenth-century silverware of Tiffany & Co. has an important place in the history of decorative arts, the significance of which is being increasingly recognized among collectors and museums for the high quality of the silver, the inventiveness of the designs, and the marvelous range of forms in which they were made.

This definitive history of that silver traces the history of the company founded by Charles L. Tiffany, who, with his great silversmith, Edward C. Moore, propelled it to world renown.

Illustrated with drawings from original sketchbooks of designs and more than three hundred black-and-white photographs. This handsome volume is an invaluable record of a great American art and craft for amateur and professional collectors alike.