Listen "Tiffany's frog-shaped creamer and pufferfish sugar dish, at the Met"
Episode Synopsis
In this week’s episode, Ben Miller speaks with Annamarie Sandecki, who describes herself as the “semi-retired former director” of the Tiffany Archives, and Medill Higgins Harvey, curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the light table are a curiously shaped creamer and equally curious sugar bowl, the first in the shape of a frog and the second shaped like a pufferfish. Both were made by Tiffany under the aegis of design director Edward C. Moore, whose personal collection of decorative arts objects from around the world served as an inspiration to Tiffany in the later 1800s, and is the subject of a current exhibition at the Met, Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany and Co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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