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NINE FLORAL DESIGNS

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NINE FLORAL DESIGNS
on the inside of ledger book bindings: weigelia, watercolor, charcoal, bronze metallic paint; tuliptree flowers, gouache, charcoal, pencil; white crabapple, oil, metallic paint; cranberry-bush viburnum, watercolor, charcoal, bronze and silver metallic paint; iris, gold painted over watercolor and charcoal; iris, watercolor, gold metallic paint, glitter, charcoal; maple with seed polynoses, oil, silver, metallic paint; white lilacs; oil contée crayon, silver metallic paint; wistaria, gouache over charcoal
the largest 16 1/8 x 10¼in. (41 x 26cm.)
the 'tuliptree flowers' with pencil markings visible beneath the design (9)

來源

Louis Comfort Tiffany
Mrs. M.C. Wilcox, a friend of the Tiffany family
Martha Fort Anderson, 1934

拍品專文

These nine floral designs were executed on the inside paper of old ledger book covers. The designs are accompanied by an inscription written on paper glued to cardboard by the present owner's mother-in-law, Martha Fort Anderson: Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848- Pres. Tiffany Glass & Decorating of New York- Design for "Favrile Glass" Given to Mrs. M.C. Wilcox- to Martha Fort Anderson by Mrs. M.C. Wilcox 1934