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Tea and Coffee Service
The collection record classifies this work as silver. It is dated c. 1907. Recorded culture or place: France, Paris.
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- Museum title
- Tea and Coffee Service
- Date
- c. 1907
- Culture / origin
- France, Paris
- Materials and technique
- gilt silver and ivory
- Dimensions
- Not specified by the museum
- Artist / maker
- Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856–1940); Adrien-Aurélien Hebrard (French, 1866–1937)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1980.74
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This tea and coffee service, salver, and table, together with some now missing cups, were all designed by Carlo Bugatti as an ensemble and presented at the 1902 exposition devoted to decorative arts in Turin, Italy. The set was probably acquired from Bugatti's 1907 exhibition at the Galerie Hébrard in Paris by a wealthy South African widow, Anna Blake, who was living there at the time. Some of the animal and insect motifs suggest mythical beasts or the fossils of prehistoric animals. When Mrs. Blake returned to Cape Town, she took these and other pieces designed by Bugatti with her, and they remained in South Africa throughout her lifetime.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection · CC0
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