Historical Design I Whiting / Late 19th Century Sterling dish with pomegranate motif c. 1890

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Whiting / Late 19th Century Sterling dish with pomegranate motif c. 1890

WHITING MANUFACTURING CO. No. Attleboro, MA

Footed dish with pomegranate motif c. 1890

Sterling silver with a hand hammered honey comb surface, applied pomegranate and pomegranate blossom motif

Marks: Whiting logo (lion with W in oval (manufacturer’s insignia)), STERLING, 757, C

L: 5″ x D: 4″

In 1840 Albert Tifft and William Whiting started their business in No. Attleboro MA as a jewelry manufacturing company and then in 1866 created the Whiting Mfg. Co. and expanded production into small hollowware as well. The Gorham Company bought Whiting in 1926 and all operations were then moved to Providence, R.I.

Category: Archive. Tags: 19th Century Sterling, c. 1890, dish, Late, motif, pomegranate, Whiting, with.

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Whiting / Late 19th Century Sterling dish with pomegranate motif c. 1890

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“Century Modern” chocolate or demitasse pot 1936

Handwrought sterling silver, fiber handle and finial

Stamped: TIFFANY & Co. MAKERS, 22172 (pattern/date system number), 5244(order number), STERLING SILVER, 925-1000, m (John C. Moore, designer), 5 GILLS

For a related modernist service and information about Century Modern silver exhibited at the 1939 New York World’s Fair see: Tiffany Silver, Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978) pp. 256, 259-261

For more information see: Tiffany Silver, Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978) pp. 256, 259-261; Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940, The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998), p. 240.

H: 8″ x W: 5″ x D: 3 1/4″

Whiting / Late 19th Century Sterling dish with pomegranate motif c. 1890

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