Engineers Club Commemorative Goblet

A commemorative gilt bronze goblet given to attendees at the opening dinner of the Engineers Club in NYC. The Engineers Club was located on West 40th Street, in NYC, in a building constructed with funds from Andrew Carnegie.  Carnegie was Scottish by descent, and the thistle, a national emblem of Scotland, forms the basis for the goblet. The thistle's flower forms the cup and its leaves curl around the stem.  It is inscribed on the rim of the base The Engineers Club, December 9th,1907. A similar example is found in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NYC. Historians believe the goblet was designed by Louis C. TIffany, who was president of Tiffany & Co. at the time of the dinner, and that the goblets were produced at the Tiffany Studios foundry in Corona, Queens. The underside of the base is impressed: Tiffany & Co. Height: 7-5/8".

Provenance

Priivate Collection, NY