Details
Favrile glass
1212 in. (31.7 cm) high, 518 in. (13.1 cm) diameter
engraved L.C.T. Favrile Y8945
Literature
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, inside cover, n.p., pl. viii and xi; pp. 163, 172
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, New York, 1971, pp. 31; 44, no. 38; 82, no. 93 (for a drawing of the model); 83, no. 98
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Art Glass, New York, 1977, n.p., nos. 98, 106, 120
H. F. McKean, The “Lost” Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1980, pp. 158, 164-165
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 24, 37-39
P. Garner, Glass 1900: Gallé, Tiffany, Lalique, London, 1984, n.p., no. 16
A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 93
V. Couldrey, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, London, 2001, pp. 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. 55 (for an early watercolor by Bredt Nash), 82 (for a period photograph of a related example in the Tiffany Studios Showroom), 91, 163-169, 186, 222
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, 2001, pp. 172, 177, 211, 313
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 203, 206-207, 209, 221, 222-226, 234, 259, 554
M. A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, pp. 142-143, cat. nos. 46-48
A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006, p. 120, figs. 199 and 201
M. Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty, New York, 2007, pp. 42-44, nos. 49-51; 84, no. 104
P. E. Doros, The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2013, pp. 40; 45 (for a period photograph of a related example in the Tiffany Studios Showroom); 64-65 and 68, fig. 15; 72-75, figs. 23-27
D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, pp. 14, fig. 9; 84-89, nos. 14-17; 92-95, nos. 19-20; 98-99, no. 23
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