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Lot Essay
This vase is accompanied by a letter from H. Townsend Blodget, New York City:
April 16th, 1934
My Dear Betty:
I think the history of this vase which we are sending you with our love and greatest good wishes will interest you and Peter.
At the time of my wedding to your grandmother My friend Mr. John Williams, a noted bronze statue caster, asked his friend, Mr. Louis C. Tiffany, discoverer and manufacturer of the Tiffany Art Glass, to select what he considered the finest example of this craft, and this was presented to me.
I have kept the vase all these years carefully packed in cotton, except on special occasions, when we have always had it out holding a calla-lily or a single flower.
The present case I have made of mahogany, and the green valure [sic] is a remnant of the wall covering of the "Green Room" of the "White House" when it was redecorated under my direction, at the time Theodore Roosevelt became President.
Your affectionate
Grandfather Blodget
April 16th, 1934
My Dear Betty:
I think the history of this vase which we are sending you with our love and greatest good wishes will interest you and Peter.
At the time of my wedding to your grandmother My friend Mr. John Williams, a noted bronze statue caster, asked his friend, Mr. Louis C. Tiffany, discoverer and manufacturer of the Tiffany Art Glass, to select what he considered the finest example of this craft, and this was presented to me.
I have kept the vase all these years carefully packed in cotton, except on special occasions, when we have always had it out holding a calla-lily or a single flower.
The present case I have made of mahogany, and the green valure [sic] is a remnant of the wall covering of the "Green Room" of the "White House" when it was redecorated under my direction, at the time Theodore Roosevelt became President.
Your affectionate
Grandfather Blodget