AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN SILVER, SILVER-GILT AND COPPERED "JAPANESE STYLE" VASE, FREDERICK ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, 1879 |

the spot-hammered surface applied with cranes, cherry blossoms, chrysanthemums, bamboo and a waterfall, some parcel-gilt and with copper overlay, coppered and gilt dragon-form handles, gilt interior

some gilding rubbed and small losses to copper overlay, a few small dents to both sides, otherwise good condition
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This piece dates from just after Tiffany & Co. won the Gold Medal at the 1878 Paris Exhibition with their mixed-metal Japanese-style silver. This had an immediate influence on makers in France, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Here, Elkington & Co. have had to use applied coppering, like gilding, as guild regulations would not allow the applied copper castings used by Tiffany.