Lot Essay
cf. Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, ed., Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company, Ltd., Tokyo, 1991, p. 130, fig. 86 for a colorplate illustration of this model.
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'SAXIFRAGE', A GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTICK
BY TIFFANY STUDIOS
The gilt-bronze openwork bobêche cast as a clustered flower head, the slender standard formed by stems resting upon a base of layered, radiating leaves, stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1331, and stamped 1
18 3/8in. (cm.) high
BY TIFFANY STUDIOS
The gilt-bronze openwork bobêche cast as a clustered flower head, the slender standard formed by stems resting upon a base of layered, radiating leaves, stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1331, and stamped 1
18 3/8in. (cm.) high