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Pitcher
Manufacturer Tiffany & Co.
The radiating saz leaves, tulips, and chrysanthemum blossoms on this pitcher resemble popular motifs seen on Ottoman and Persian ceramic tiles and plates that Moore collected. Despite being identified in Tiffany ledgers as "Indian scroll," this design demonstrates the firm’s hybrid aesthetic. The interlacing bands that encircle the base are reminiscent of the strapwork components of Etruscan Revival jewelry Moore designed during this same period, while the basket-weave pattern decorating the neck and handle suggests the textures of the Japanese bamboo baskets he collected. A line drawing of this intricate pitcher appears in Tiffany’s Chaser’s Scrapbook, an internal resource used to record designs the firm considered its most successful.
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