American Sterling Silver Cups and Saucers Set by Tiffany & Co - Antique 1914

Description

This exceptional antique American sterling silver teaware set consists of eight tea cups and eight saucers.

The tea cups have a circular bell shaped form onto a spreading foot, and the saucers have a circular rounded form onto a collet style base.

The surface of both the cup and saucer is embellished with an impressive interlacing band of foliate ornamentation, accented with a central quatrefoil floral motif to each lobe.

These components of Tiffany silverware are encircled with a tooled decorated border, in addition to applied moulded decoration.

Each cup is fitted with an impressive C scroll handle accented with a plain scrolling thumbpiece and scrolling lower terminal.

The hallmarks struck to the underside of this each piece includes:

Maker's mark: Tiffany & Co. (directorship of John C. Moore II)

Silver quality/purity mark: sterling silver (.925, 925/1000)

Pattern number: 18705 (1914)

Order number: 8176

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