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Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Bowl the pattern introduced in 1920, this example 1947-1956, New York , New York, part of Tiffany's reproduction series of important American silver, this bowl after a ca. 1700 example by Joseph Conyers, Boston, of plain hemispherical form with simple foot ring, monogrammed "FWB". h. 4", dia. 9-1/8"; 24.25 t. oz. Notes: This striking bowl, one of Tiffany's most popular, is a testament to the endurance of American design. The late 17th-/early 18th-century original was part of the collection of Connecticut bed linen and quilt manufacturer George Smith Palmer (1855-1934), a pioneering figure in the study and collection of American decorative arts. Palmer began to divest himself of his important collection in 1918, donating his sixty-five best furniture pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, followed by the sale of his silver collection in 1920 to Tiffany & Co. (The remainder was sold to antiquarian Israel Sack in 1928.) Tiffany immediately placed Palmer silver on exhibition and simultaneously created the model for this reproduction, the original of which appeared as number 18 in the 1920 exhibition catalogue. The bowl's Puritan simplicity of design appealed to adherents of both the Colonial Revival fad of the 1920s and its contemporaneous avant-garde stylistic opposite, Art Deco, and became even more popular throughout the period of mid-century modernism; Tiffany's copy thus remained in production for at least thirty-five years. Tiffany eventually sold the Palmer collection to Edsel Ford, where it formed the core of the silver collection at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.