Decorated with a representation of the marriage of Poseidon and Amphitrite in high relief, flanked by putti and sea creatures, the upswept loop handle applied with reeds and cattails and joined to the top with trailing vines, all raised on a pedestal foot with acanthus band and four sea creature feet. Height 15 1/2 inches, approximately 64 ounces, with French Import marks.
Provenance:
Cornelia A. Talman Barculo Atwill (1812-1901).
Then by descent in the family.
Notes:
Cornelia A. Barculo, née Talman, was born in 1812 in New York to John Hubbell Talman and Sarah Somerindyke. The Somerindyke family owned a large tract of farmland on the west side of Manhattan, which included what is now part of the Upper West Side, a strip of Central Park, and the land on which Lincoln Center and Columbus Circle are now located.

Cornelia married Seward Barculo in 1834 and, following his death in 1854, married Winthrop Atwill in 1862. A noted art collector, Cornelia Barculo Atwill purchased the acclaimed Magnolia Vase by Tiffany & Co., the centerpiece of the company's display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Magnolia Vase was among numerous works of art which she later anonymously bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including sculpture and Favrile glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Mrs. Atwill owned another important Tiffany & Co. silver and enamel exposition vase, also made for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, which was sold Christie's, New York, January 20, 2005, lot 72.

At her death in 1899, Cornelia's estate was reported in the New York Times as valued at a handsome $1.4 million.

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