LELIÈVRE (Eugène-Alfred) – Solid silver coffee pot TIFFANY circa 1880 ART NOUVEAU

LELIÈVRE (Eugène-Alfred) – Solid silver coffee pot TIFFANY circa 1880 ART NOUVEAU
Large solid silver coffee pot with flat bottom, ovoid body, carved ebony handle, fixed with an umbel flower decoration. We find this same decoration under the pouring spout and on the hinged lid grip.
Dimensions: Height: 26 cm – width 19 cm base diameter 13 cm
Material: 1st grade silver 950/°°°
Weight: 1000 gr.
Hallmark: MINERVE
Period: ART NOUVEAU around 1880
Goldsmith: E. LELIEVRE
Provenance: Edward CHANDLER MOORE (1827/1891) Goldsmith director of the TIFFANY workshop. – Belonging to the H. Collection, descendant of the Previous. Many pieces from his collection are exhibited at the MMA in NEW YORK.
LELIÈVRE (Eugène-Alfred), student of MM. Mittenholf and Philippe May. — Boulevard. Richard-Lenoir, Paris born in 1856, in Montmartre, at the end of his life in 1945 he lived at 16 rue du grand prieuré Paris 16th.
his workshop was at 14 bis rue des Minimes, Paris. Lelievre exhibited at the Society of Decorative Artists, the Society of French Artists and the National Society of Fine Arts
EXHIBITION OF DECORATIVE ARTISTS in the magazine Le Panthéon de l'industrie from 1906.