Cigar box
Exhibitions:
Object name:
Cigar box
Date:
1930
Medium:
Silver
Description:
This lavish box, an example of Tiffany & Co’s “Special Hand Work,” was presented to discerning cigar smoker Al Smith, the self-made New York politician who ascended from the Lower East Side to four terms as governor of the State of New York.
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society, Purchase
Object Number:
2004.49
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pitcher
Exhibitions:
Relating Tags:
Object name:
Pitcher
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Silver
Description:
An early retailer of luxury goods, Tiffany, Young & Ellis offered patrons a wide assortment of stylish table silver, including this Asian-inspired water pitcher. The firm began retailing silver made by others around 1847 and contracted its own silver manufacture starting in 1851.
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society, Presented in memory of Cruger Delafield Grosbeck Fowler by Mrs. Cruger D. G. Fowler and Family
Object Number:
1983.7
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ice cream dish
Exhibitions:
Relating Tags:
Object name:
Ice cream dish
Date:
1877-1878
Medium:
Silver
Description:
Embodying the extravagant excess of the Gilded Age, this exotic ice cream dish was part of a 1,250-piece dinner service commissioned from Tiffany & Co. by “silver king” John W. Mackay (1831-1902) for his wife, Marie Louise Hungerford Mackay (1843-1928).
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society, Gift of Mr. John Mackay
Object Number:
1980.14
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902)
Exhibitions:
Relating Tags:
Object name:
Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902)
Date:
1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Description:
Charles L. Tiffany founded the famous silver and jewelry firm Tiffany & Co. in 1837. The business began as a small stationery and gift shop, Tiffany and Young. This portrait depicts the young entrepreneur in 1840, before his firm became a major retailer of fine silver.
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society, Gift of Mrs. Comfort Tiffany Gilder
Object Number:
1948.393
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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Furniture
The New-York Historical Society's furniture holdings number more than 500 objects, including seating furniture, tables, case furniture, cradles, clocks and boxes ranging from a late seventeenth-century Dutch kast to a pair of 1960s Bertoia chairs. The earliest acquisition, a chair made for Marie Antoinette's private chambers at Versailles in 1779, was purchased by U.S. Minister to France Gouverneur Morris.
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