Pliny adds " sideboards and one-legged tables " to the list, but lays responsibility for Rome's slide into luxury on the " 1400 pounds of chased silver ware and 1500 pounds of golden vessels " brought somewhat earlier by Scipio Asiaticus for his triumph of 189 BCE.
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In 1851 he made a special visitation of all the assay offices in the United Kingdom, on which he reported to parliament, and valuable evidence on the subject was given by him to select committee of the House of Commons on'gold and silver wares'in 1855 and 1856.
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Tiffany & Co .'s silver division under the direction of Edward C . Moore began to experiment with mokume-gane techniques around 1877 and at the Paris exposition of 1878 Tiffany's in its grand prize-winning display of Moore's " Japanesque " silver wares included a magnificent " Conglomerate Vase " with asymmetrical panels of mokume . ( The Conglomerate Vase which has been widely acclaimed as the most important work of nineteenth-century American silver was sold at Sotheby's on January 20, 1998 for $ 585, 500 . ) Moore and Tiffany's silver smiths continued to develop its popular mokume techniques in preparation for the Paris exposition of 1889 where it displayed a vast array of Japanesque silver using ever more complex alloys of shakado, sedo and shibuci along with gold and silver to make laminates of up to twenty-four layers.
