Large hammered sterling silver and parcel-gilt presentation punch bowl Tiffany & Co., New York, NY, dated "1883"
The interior with sprays of seaweed heightened with gilt, the body with applied fish and seaweed, the side inscribed, "Gracie, Bedouin/Match race/Oct 18th 1883/Course 26 Miles to Windward and return/from Sandy Hook./Won by/Bedouin, beating Gracie/some 15 minutes.", marked to underside.
Provenance: Sotheby's New York, June 23, 1988, lot 197.
Sotheby's New York, June 15, 1998, lot 1693.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
This punch bowl documents the publicized victory of the cutterBedouin over the sloop Gracie on October 18, 1883 for the Bennett Cup in a race organized by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of Oyster Bay, New York. Covered in the New York Times , October 19, 1883, with the headline, "The Cutter Bedouin's Victory: The Gracie beaten nearly fifteen minutes in a forty- mile race," the match is also detailed in Frederick Schiller Cozzens, Yachts and Yachting (1887) p. 98.
The interior with sprays of seaweed heightened with gilt, the body with applied fish and seaweed, the side inscribed, "Gracie, Bedouin/Match race/Oct 18th 1883/Course 26 Miles to Windward and return/from Sandy Hook./Won by/Bedouin, beating Gracie/some 15 minutes.", marked to underside.
H: 9 in. Diam: 15 1/4 in. Weight: 101.57 oz.t.
Provenance: Sotheby's New York, June 23, 1988, lot 197.
Sotheby's New York, June 15, 1998, lot 1693.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
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The interior with sprays of seaweed heightened with gilt, the body with applied fish and seaweed, the side inscribed, "Gracie, Bedouin/Match race/Oct 18th 1883/Course 26 Miles to Windward and return/from Sandy Hook./Won by/Bedouin, beating Gracie/some 15 minutes.", marked to underside.
Provenance: Sotheby's New York, June 23, 1988, lot 197.
Sotheby's New York, June 15, 1998, lot 1693.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
This punch bowl documents the publicized victory of the cutterBedouin over the sloop Gracie on October 18, 1883 for the Bennett Cup in a race organized by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of Oyster Bay, New York. Covered in the New York Times , October 19, 1883, with the headline, "The Cutter Bedouin's Victory: The Gracie beaten nearly fifteen minutes in a forty- mile race," the match is also detailed in Frederick Schiller Cozzens, Yachts and Yachting (1887) p. 98.
The interior with sprays of seaweed heightened with gilt, the body with applied fish and seaweed, the side inscribed, "Gracie, Bedouin/Match race/Oct 18th 1883/Course 26 Miles to Windward and return/from Sandy Hook./Won by/Bedouin, beating Gracie/some 15 minutes.", marked to underside.
H: 9 in. Diam: 15 1/4 in. Weight: 101.57 oz.t.
Provenance: Sotheby's New York, June 23, 1988, lot 197.
Sotheby's New York, June 15, 1998, lot 1693.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
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