Circa 1890, Tiffany & co., New York, the glass J. Hoare and company, Corning, NY

The flared silver rim with tied ribbon bows and garlands of flowers, the glass body with swirls deeply cut in the ‘Snail’ pattern, and cut flowerheads and sprigs, mounted with three notched handles, the base cut with a hobstar.

The silver marked TIFFANY & Co / MAKERS/ STERLING SILVER and with scratched numbers 1/25 and 4876; contemporary engraved monogram ‘JMC’

Height 8 ¾ inches

Width 8 inches (over handles)

$5,500

Hoare supplied similar ‘rock crystal’  loving cups cut in the Snail pattern to be mounted and sold by leading silvermakers including Tiffany and Gorham, with various collars. The presence of the 1/25 scratch mark could indicate that this was one of 25 similar examples with this collar retailed by Tiffany, making the present example rare, indeed we have been unable to trace any Tiffany with this design of collar. John Hoare was a master cutter whose firm by the 1870s was one of the largest cut glass concerns in the USA; they won awards at various exhibitions in Boston and Philadelphia, and in 1893 won four medals at the Chicago World’s Fair. 

Condition: Good, tarnish to recesses on collar, old scratches to underside as expected, four small areas of loss to silver on collar.