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Wednesday 30 October 2024, 02:30 PM • Milan

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Tiffany & Co.

Representative centerpiece cup, USA, 1924

in sterling silver

Refined cup with essential and elegant lines, a circular base with lateral monograms and crest at the base.Produced by Tiffany & Co. on commission as a wedding gift for DIANA DALZIEL and THOMAS REED VREELAND.



Weight kg 2,160 diam cm 26,50 x base diam cm 25,00 x h cm 15,50

Starting bid

€ 2.000

Sold

€ 2.451

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

On one side, with an engraving and high relief technique, it bears the names of the spouses and the date of the wedding:“DIANA DALZIEL - THOMAS REED VREELAND - MARCH 1 1924”, and on the back, the “Scroll & Key” symbol with the initials C.S.P - CCJ, of the Scroll and Key Secret Society of Yale University; the “Keys” was the most “literary” of Yale's internal associations, in the sense of secret societies.
Around the base of the cup there are fifteen crests engraved in high relief, with the names of the members of the association:Henry Julian Mali, Charles Shipman Payson, Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller, Lawrence Foster, John Herndon French Jr., KennethHill Hawkes, Sidney Barnes Hosmer, Tom Keck, Richardson Dilworth, Edwin Victor Hale Jr., Thomas James Robertson, Thomas Reed Vreeland, Robert Carson 3rd, Eliot Buffinton, John Taber Robertson.Signed and hallmarked Tiffany & Co. 18457 Maker 2927, sterling silver 925/1000, M 3727.
It is in good condition, with defects (slight signs of use and dents).
Accompanied by the book “Diana Vreeland”, Donzelli Editore, 2013.

Diana Dalziel Vreeland(Paris, 29 September 1903 – New York, 22 August 1989)
She was an American journalist of French origin, specializing in high fashion.Considered an icon of 1960s style, she is still remembered today as one of the most influential 20th century personalities in the industry.
Born in Paris, Diana Dalziel was the daughter of a British father, Frederick Young Dalziel, and an American mother, Emily Key Hoffman. The Hoffmans were part of American high society, as descendants of George Washington's brother, as well as cousins ​​of Francis Scott Key, writer and poet, author of the lyrics of the United States national anthem.Diana had a sister, Alexandra Dalziel, and was a cousin of Pauline de Rothschild. The family moved to the United States at the end of World War I.In 1924 she married banker Thomas Reed Vreeland. After the wedding the couple moved to London, where Vreeland opened a refined ladies' boutique which also counted Wallis Simpson, the future Duchess of Windsor, among its customers. During this period Diana often visited Paris, where in 1926 she met Coco Chanel and her jeweler friend Suzanne Belperron.In 1937 Diana Vreeland moved again to New York, where she began her career as a journalist and editor for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.An important signature of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, in 1965 she was admitted into the Hall of Fame as one of the most elegant women in the world.From 1962 to 1972 she was editor in chief of American Vogue magazine. In 1967 Diana Vreeland was widowed; in 1972 he began to collaborate with the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a consultant.


YALE UNIVERSITY SCROLL AND KEY SECRET SOCIETY CSP CCJ 1842-1969The Scroll And Key Secret Society of Yale University

The Scroll And Key - literally, "parchment and key" - is the most "intellectual" of the eight secret societies of Yale University.
Among its members, many achieved notoriety and prominent positions, such as Calvin Trillin, Yale President Bart Giamatti, cartoonist Gary Trudeau, Sargent Shriver, founder of the Peace Corps, diplomat Dean Acheson, medical pioneer Harvey Cushing, who identified the syndrome that bears his name, and Henry Case, founder of Case Western Reserve University.
Scroll And Key, in addition to being the richest, is among the most generous fraternities at Yale: in fact, it sponsors prizes and scholarships for university students.
It was founded by John Addison Porter, with the help of several members of the class of 1842 and a member of the class of 1843, William L. Kingsley, after controversies that arose during the elections of another fraternity at the same university, the Skull and Bones.
Scroll And Key annually selects a delegation of fifteen people, made up of men and women from the junior class, to fill the management positions the following year. The proposal to join the brotherhood is offered to highly qualified young people, in particular to those who have positively distinguished themselves in any field: academic, extracurricular or personal. Delegations often include journalists, artists and musicians, social and political activists, successful sportspeople, entrepreneurs and high-level scholars.
In keeping with the practice of adopting secret letters or symbols, such as the "322" of Skull and Bones, the members of Scroll And Key use the acronyms "C.S.P." and "C.C.J."