Details
Favrile glass
1618 x 8 x 512 in. (41 x 20.3 x 14 cm)
engraved L.C.T. 9983A
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, 15 May 1995, lot 1221.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, p. x, 219.
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Art Glass, New York, 1977, n.p., no. 11; no. 107.
H. F. McKean, The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York 1980, p. 159, fig. 153.
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 19, no. 26; 25, no. 49; 41, nos. 114-115.
A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 58-59, no. 32.
M. S. Steeg. Jr., Tiffany Favrile Art Glass, Atglen, 1997, p. 58.
M. A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 143, cat. no. 49.
M. Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty, New York, 2007, pp. 83-84, 104.
R. M. Pepall, Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 2009, pp. 11; 134, cat. no. 83; 135, cat. no. 84.
M. Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Pottery and the Quest of Beauty, New York, 2010, p. 13, no. 7.
P. E. Doros, The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2013, p. 76, fig. 30.
D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, pp. 100-103, no. 24.
K. A. Conway and L. R. Parrot, Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, 2017, p. 79, fig. 3.5.
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