Lot 328 : TIFFANY STUDIOS
Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Description:
A MAGNIFICENT CYPRIOTE PLAQUE
measurements note
17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm) diameter
ca. 1896
engraved F916 L.C. Tiffany-Inc. Favrile
favrile glass
PROVENANCE
Christie's New York, March 21, 1981, lot 453
LITERATURE
Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1987, reprint, originally published, Garden City, NY, 1914, p. 41 (for a period illustration of a similar example)
Marilynn A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 141, cat. no. 44 (for a similar plaque in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art )
NOTE
Favrile glass plaques are rare in Tiffany's repertoire. Henry Osborne Havemeyer presented four favrile glass plaques to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1896, which are similar to the example presently offered.
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