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Tray or Waiter

Tiffany & Companyca. 1893

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York City, United States

Circular tray or waiter (plateau sur table), raised on 10 stepped, ornamented feet, each representing stylized Aztec deity and each crowned by scalloped, semi-circular, brown and black agate disk headdress that rises above gallery. Between each foot is sloping pierced band with stylized, engraved ornament. Between the headdresses is gallery of low, pierced arcade of repeating arches, each centered with small, elaborate cartouche. Center of tray slopes in concave curve away from gallery; surface is ornamented with acid-etched replica of the Aztec sun calendar.CONDITION: Normal wear. One agate headdress (just left of lower center) replaced with enameled copper.

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  • Title: Tray or Waiter
  • Creator Lifespan: American, founded 1853
  • Creator Nationality: 0
  • Date Created: ca. 1893
  • Location Created: New York, New York, USA
  • Type: Food/Drink, Service
  • Rights: Modernism Benefit Fund
  • External Link: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1849/Tray_or_Waiter
  • Medium: Silver, agate
  • Signed: no signature
  • Markings: Impressed on back: "TIFFANY & Co /11361 [globe over T under TIFFANY & Co -- mark for 1893 fair] 4767 /STERLING SILVER /925-1000"
  • Maker: Tiffany & Company
  • Inscribed: no inscriptions
  • Dimensions: 2 x 21 x 21 x 21 in. (5.1 x 53.3 x 53.3 x 53.3 cm)
  • Collection: Decorative Arts
  • Accession number: 87.182
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