Pair of Candelabra

While Tiffany designers cultivated a deep reverence for Japanese design, they frequently blended sources of inspiration from multiple cultures and the natural world to create something critics called "thoroughly and distinctly original." Charles Grosjean, supervisor of the silver workshop, described the applied polychrome mixed-metal chrysanthemums with incised leaves on the base of these candelabra as "another beautiful form of decoration we are taught by the ingenious Japanese." Yet other elements, such as the inlaid feathered and trailing ribbon motifs that ornament the necks, draw on classical and Persian art. This union, along with the copper-tipped drips, a nod to silver’s molten state, captures the aesthetic innovation Moore fostered.