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AN IMPORTANT JEWELLED AND BRONZE-MOUNTED 'AGATE' FAVRILE GLASS VASE
BY TIFFANY STUDIOS
Faceted, the thick avocado green glass decorated with caramel-brown combed swags within a reticulated bronze mount raised on seven linked peacock feather feet each set with a gold Favrile glass cabochon, the bronze inscribed Louis C. Tiffany-FAVRILE 546D--10¼in. (26.6cm.) high
PROVENANCE
Lillian Nassau, Ltd.
Eugene and Eleanor Gluck
Christie's, New York, Magnificent Tiffany, The Gluck Collection, February 17, 1979, lot 69
Lillian Nassau, Ltd.
David Geffen
Christie's, New York, Magnificent Tiffany, The David Geffen Collection, December 15, 1984, lot 14
EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., The Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, September 29, 1989-March 4, 1990. This exhibition travelled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 12-September 9, 1990.
LITERATURE
Alastair Duncan et al., Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London, 1989, fig. 33; Alastair Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, Rizzoli, New York, 1981, p. 40, ill. 109
BY TIFFANY STUDIOS
Faceted, the thick avocado green glass decorated with caramel-brown combed swags within a reticulated bronze mount raised on seven linked peacock feather feet each set with a gold Favrile glass cabochon, the bronze inscribed Louis C. Tiffany-FAVRILE 546D--10¼in. (26.6cm.) high
PROVENANCE
Lillian Nassau, Ltd.
Eugene and Eleanor Gluck
Christie's, New York, Magnificent Tiffany, The Gluck Collection, February 17, 1979, lot 69
Lillian Nassau, Ltd.
David Geffen
Christie's, New York, Magnificent Tiffany, The David Geffen Collection, December 15, 1984, lot 14
EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., The Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, September 29, 1989-March 4, 1990. This exhibition travelled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 12-September 9, 1990.
LITERATURE
Alastair Duncan et al., Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London, 1989, fig. 33; Alastair Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, Rizzoli, New York, 1981, p. 40, ill. 109