Description
The archives of Elkington held at the Victoria & Albert Museum contain the notes from Elkington’s representative sent to the 1878 Paris Exhibition to report back on the work of the Exhibitors. He writes on Tiffany “…the new hammered ground work possessing great character is susceptible of adaptation to many objects, either plain, embossed or etched… Great attention must be paid to the colour of bronzes, the application of which to silver and gold work gives them a distinguished appearance when not too freely used. The strong contrasts of colour in red and black on silver are very good.”