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TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 164
08.06.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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$ 94 500
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 976483
Lot 164 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS

Important and Rare 'Morning Glory' Paperweight Vase, circa 1913

Favrile glass

7 1/2 in. (19 cm) high, 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm) diameter

engraved L.C.Tiffany-Favrile 8561H and Paris-Salon 1914





Provenance

The Estate of Dr. Edward and Helen McConnell, Atlanta, Georgia

Sotheby's, New York, 11 June 2014, lot 11

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Art Glass, New York, 1977, n.p., no. 24-3 (for a related example); no. 97-4 (for a related example); no. 120 (for a period photograph of a related example on the mantel of a Tiffany tiled fireplace in the factory office); no. 127 (for a related example)

A. Christian Revi, American Art Nouveau Glass, Exton, 1981, pp. 26, fig. 23 (for the above period photograph); center insert, n.p. (for a related example)

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. 25 (for a period illustration of a ‘Morning Glory’ vase by Leslie Hayden Nash), 80-83 (for a discussion on the making of ‘Morning Glory’ vases), 81 (for a period photograph of the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in the Grand Palais, Paris 1914), 82 (for a period photograph of a related example on the mantel of a Tiffany tiled fireplace in the factory office and a painting by Leslie H. Nash of chemical reactive glass vases), 83 (for a watercolor study of 'Morning Glories' by Louis Comfort Tiffany), 217 (for a period photograph of a close up of the case at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, 1914 and a related example)

J. Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, p. 163 (for a related example)

A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 258 (for a watercolor study of 'Morning Glories' by Louis Comfort Tiffany), 259 (for period photographs of this model)

M. A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 148, cat. no. 54 (for a related Tiffany textile with a ‘Morning Glory’ pattern); 149, cat. no. 55 (for a related example); 150, cat. no. 56 (for a related example)

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. 123, fig. 208 (for a related example)

M. Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty, New York, 2007, p. 68, fig. 81 (for a related example)

R. M. Pepall, Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 2009, p. 156, cat. no. 118 (for a related example); 204, fig. 5 (for a period photograph of the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in the Grand Palais, Paris 1914)

P. E. Doros, The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2013, p. 3 (for a related example); 45 (for a period photograph of a related example on the mantel of a Tiffany tiled fireplace in the factory office); 141, fig. 89 (for a related example)



Exhibited

Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1914
Manufactur:Tiffany Studios
Medium:Glass
Art style:Art Nouveau
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps, Vases and vessels
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