Cigarette Case
Tiffany & Co.
1890–1900 · Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy · The American Wing
This cigarette case and a related match case (41.140.3) are rare surviving examples of Tiffany & Co.’s laminated metalwork, also called "mixed metal" in company records and known to the Japanese as mokume. In mokume (meaning "wood grain" or, literally, "wood eye"), thin sheets of differently colored metals and alloys are laminated, folded to increase the number of layers, cut through or bent, and, finally, hammered to produce marbleized patterns.
- Artist
- Tiffany & Co.
- Date
- 1890–1900
- Medium
- Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1941
