Details
Favrile glass
834 in. (22.2 cm) high, 5 in. (12.7 cm) diameter
engraved 1746D L.C.Tiffany-Favrile
Provenance
Kitazawa Museum of Art, Suwa-City, Nagano, Japan
Christie's, New York, 8 June 2000, lot 152
Private New England Collection, USA
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’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, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, pp. 6-7, 84-85, 92
Art Nouveau Glass: Collection of Kitazawa Museum of Art, exh. cat., Kitazawa Museum of Art, Suwa-City, Nagano, 1992, p. 98
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
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. 41, no. 48
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. 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)
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