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STERLING MATCHING SERVICE
P.O. Box 46
Topsfield, MA. 01983
978-887-2610

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$ 2,100.00

OLYMPIAN TIFFANY STERLING SILVER  ICE CREAM SERVER
A unique heavy server for many foods. On the reverse this sterling silver piece has incuse( indented below the surface)marks, stamped after the piece was otherwise finished m Tiffany & Co sterling PAT. 1878 The m is the date letter , c 1869-c.1878 The Olympian pattern was introduced at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878, Pat filed 1878. This is a multi-motif pattern with seventeen different handle decoration designs depicting subjects and stories from classical mythology. The handle on this server shows Paris, the son of Priam, King of Troy, presenting to Venus, the golden apple, he having been called upon by Juno, Minerva, and Venus to adjudge the prize of beauty to the fairest of these goddesses. On the reverse of the bowls is the goddess head. The most costly pattern ever issued by Tiffany.


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