TIFFANY & CO. STERLING SILVER FLASK

In the Japanese taste with grasshopper and bee on hammered surface, with pearled screw top and collapsible cup top, USA, 1883-91
Marked "7 gills" and "7600/7148"
8 1/4" x 6", 17.6 ozt
Provenance: L'Antiquaire, Palm Beach, 19 June 1992
Property from a Private Canadian Collection
Note: A drawing and a silver flask depicting a grasshopper and bee, designed by Charles Osborne, is illustrated in John Loring, Magnificent Tiffany Silver, 2001, p.174. The pearling design used to render the insects and the spiral pearling of the flask's screw top are characteristic of Osborne's work.
Condition Report: Excellent condition with a couple of small nicks to top edge of screw top