TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 513
09.12.2022 17:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 40 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 872034
Lot 513 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS

Study for the 'Heroes and Heroines of the Homeric Story' Mosaic Frieze for Alexander Hall, Princeton University, New Jersey, circa 1896-1897

designed by Jacob Adolphus Holzer (1858-1938)

Favrile glass, painted wood frame

24 5/8 in. (62.5 cm) high, 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm) wide (sight)





Provenance

John Dikeman, New York, Foreman of the Lamp Shop at Tiffany Studios, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

"Tiffany Mosaics in Glass," The New York Times, New York, August 5, 1896, p. 8 (for a discussion of the 'Heroes and Heroines of the Homeric Story' mosaic frieze and the present lot's figure)

N. Long, ed., The Tiffany Chapel at the Morse Museum, exh. cat., The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida, 2002, p. 61 (for the 'Heroes and Heroines of the Homeric Story' mosaic frieze)

M. Eidelberg, et. al., A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, New York, 2007, p. 35-36 (for a discussion of the 'Heroes and Heroines of the Homeric Story' mosaic frieze)

E. Crouch, The Mosaics of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2009, p. 11, 48, 52, 170-181 (for a discussion of the 'Heroes and Heroines of the Homeric Story' mosaic frieze)

K. A. Conway and L. R. Parrot, Tiffany's Glass Mosaics, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, 2017, pp. 16-19, 31-32, 87, 169-177 (for a discussion of the 'Heroes and Heroines of the Homeric Story' mosaic frieze), 172-173 (for a discussion of the present lot's figure)
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