Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ice cream dish
Object Number:
1980.14
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
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