Details
with original metal liner
mosaic Favrile glass, patinated bronze
4 in. (10.1 cm) high; 1214 in. (31.1 cm) diameter
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS, NEW YORK 835, liner impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK
Provenance
Walter Shubert, Baldwin, New York, circa 1910
Thence by descent
Christie's, New York, 13 June 2006, lot 6
Collection of Burton and Paula Geyer, New York, 2006
Sotheby’s, New York, The Geyer Collection: Masterworks Of Tiffany And Prewar Design, 11 December, 2018, lot 6
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An illustrated Reference to Over 2000 Models, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1988, p. 396, pl. 1608, for a related model

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Lot Essay

This planter descended in the family of Walter Shubert of Baldwin, New York. He was the superintendent of schools in Baldwin in the early twentieth century and Shubert Elementary School, which was named in his honor and still exists.

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