TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 185
12.06.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1442698
Lot 185 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
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$ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS
'The Goddard Memorial Window' for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1909-1910
leaded and plated glass
75 in. (190.5 cm) high, 22 5/8 in. (57.5 cm) wide (each lancet) (sight)
80 5/8 x 28 ¼ x 2 ¼ in. (204.8 x 71.8 x 5.7 cm) (each lancet) (framed)
signed TIFFANY STVDIOS NEW YORK
with inscription The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof / The world, and they that dwell therein. To the honored memory of William Goddard, 1825-1907




Provenance

Mary Edith Jenckes Goddard, Rhode Island, commissioned directly from Tiffany Studios, 1909
Gifted to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1910



Literature

“Goddard Memorial Windows for State,” The Evening Times, Pawtucket, March 4, 1910, p. 16 (present lot mentioned)
“Memorial to Chancellor Goddard of Brown University,” Boston Evening Transcript, March 10, 1910, p. 18 (present lot mentioned)
“Easter Windows,” The Daily Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, March 20, 1910, p. 31 (present lot mentioned)
Tiffany Studios, A Partial List of Tiffany Windows Designed and Executed by Tiffany Studios, New York, 1910, p. 109 (present lot mentioned)
A. Duncan, Tiffany Windows, New York, 1980, pp. 62, no. 57 (present lot illustrated); 68-69 (for a period photograph of the Tiffany Studios Glass Shop depicting a sketch of the present lot); 222 (present lot mentioned)
P. F. Norton, Rhode Island Stained Glass: An Historical Guide, Dublin, New Hampshire, 2001, pp. 48-49 (present lot mentioned)
The Windows of St. Luke’s Church, catalogue, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, East Greenwich, 2017, pp. 20-21 (present lot illustrated)
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