Presenting a breathtaking multi-motif pattern Japanese by Tiffany and Co. large Dinner Knife with bolster measuring 10⅛ inches, featuring a New French stainless-steel blade and a beautifully detailed hollow Sterling Silver handle. The handle features a Japanesque bird perched on a branch and surrounded with delicate foliage. The dinner / place knife has considerable weight, is well balanced and is in excellent vintage condition with minimal age-appropriate wear, no damage and has never been monogrammed.

Weight = 86.2 grams

From the book “Tiffany Silver Flatware, 1845-1905: When Dining Was an Art” By William P. Hood Jr., Roslyn Berlin, & Edward Wawrynek …

“Japanese was designed in 1871, during the most innovative period in the history of Tiffany silver, and it is still one of the most popular of all Tiffany patterns. Japanese was the first Tiffany pattern to introduce silver decorated in the Japanese revival style. The flowing designs of branches and twigs with leaves, buds, flowers and exotic birds were entirely different from anything in American silver at that time.

This pattern was a direct result of the interest in exotic cultures that became widespread in the late nineteenth century. This interest led directly into the American Art Nouveau movement, whose leader was Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of Tiffany’s founder.”

The Japanese pattern was discontinued in 1904 and reintroduced in 1956 as Audubon.