ID 964785
Lot 23 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
Rare 'Turtle-Back Tile Moorish' Chandelier, circa 1895
Favrile glass, leaded glass, patinated bronze
13 ½ in. (34.3 cm.) high, 24 ½ in. (62.3 cm.) diameter, 29 in. (73.7 cm.) drop
Tiffany Studios
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 December 1999, lot 454.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, p. 181, pl. 479-481 (for related examples).
D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, New York, 2013, pp. 144-145, no. 44.
K. A. Conway and L. R. Parrot, Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, 2017, pp. 117, fig. 4.6 (for a photograph of the interior of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Troy); 155, fig. 5.3 (for a related example in the interior of St. Hubert’s Chapel, Kinnelon, New Jersey).
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, p. 308, no. 1214 (present lot illustrated).
Special notice
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| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Ceiling lights |
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Ceiling lights |
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