Match Case

Tiffany & Co.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199

This match case and a cigarette case (41.140.2) 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.

Match Case, Tiffany & Co. (1837–present), Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy, American

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Match Case, Tiffany & Co. (1837–present), Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy, American
Match Case, Tiffany & Co. (1837–present), Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy, American
Match Case, Tiffany & Co. (1837–present), Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy, American
Match Case, Tiffany & Co. (1837–present), Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy, American
Match Case, Tiffany & Co. (1837–present), Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy, American

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