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Museum Acquires Tiffany Yachting Trophy

 

Tiffany & Co., New York Ogden Goelet and James Gordon Bennett Cup [Yachting Trophy], 1894 Museum Purchase, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Endowment Fund for the Purchase of Decorative Arts

The Chrysler is pleased to announce an important new addition to its permanent decorative arts collection, a beautiful silver Tiffany yachting trophy. The trophy is visually spectacular and in excellent condition. This impressive object includes exquisite detail of mythological maritime scenes with waves and six winged zephyrs rendered in bas-relief in the mid-section. The upper portion of the body and neck is ringed with eight tritons sounding horns, their bodies rising from the sea.

Although the Chrysler’s silver collection contains some outstanding American silver from the turn of the last century it lacked a major example made by Tiffany & Co. —the firm which was founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany’s father. The recent acquisition of this splendid monumental yachting trophy fills those gaps with style and at the same time builds on our overall strength in 19th-century art and decorative arts.

This historically important silver yachting trophy was co-sponsored by two of America’s most important late 19th-century yachtsmen: Ogden Goelet and James Gordon Bennett, Jr., owner of the New York Herald. While each of these patrons commissioned or sponsored yachting trophies independently, this object is, at present, the only known surviving trophy that they sponsored together. It was originally awarded to Scottish brewer, Andrew Barclay Walker in March of 1895.

This beautiful Tiffany & Co. yachting trophy will be on view in the Museum’s 19th-Century Gallery later this spring.

For general information, please call (757) 664-6200. For media information, please contact the Public Relations Department at (757) 333-6295 or publicrelations@chrysler.org.

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