'Millefiore' Paperweight Vase, circa 1900-1903

Favrile glass
4 in. (10.2 cm) high, 5¹⁄₄ in. (13.3 cm) diameter
engraved L.C.T. W6694

Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1984, lot 287
Private American Collection
Christie's, New York, 6 December 2000, lot 253
Acquired from the above by the present owner

For related examples:
“Esposizione di Torino,” Arte italiana, Decorativa e Industriale, 1902, no. 12, p. 52 (for a period photograph of a related example exhibited at the Turin Exposition of Industrial Arts, 1902)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, n.p.
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Art Glass, New York, 1977, n.p., no. 91
H. F. McKean, The “Lost” Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1980, pp. 160-161
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, p. 22
A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, pp. 6-7, 84-85, 92
A. Duncan, M. Eidelberg, and N. Harris, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1993, p. 102, no. 34
V. Couldrey, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, London, 2001, pp. 97, 133, 170
M. Eidelberg and N. A. McClelland, Behind the Scenes of Tiffany Glassmaking: The Nash Notebooks, Including Tiffany Favrile Glass by Leslie Hayden Nash, New York, 2001, pp. 85, 186, 222
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 231, 260-261, 273
M. A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, pp. 144-145
M. Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty, New York, 2007, p. 60, no. 71
D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, p. 115, no. 29
P. E. Doros, The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2013, p. 138, fig. 85
P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I, Santa Fe Springs, California, 2023, pp. 81, no. 4-15 (for a period photograph of a related example exhibited at the Turin Exposition of Industrial Arts, 1902); 236, no. 8-34 (for a period advertisement of a related example)