- 301
Tiffany & Co.
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Description
- Tiffany & Co.
- A Fine Scent Bottle
- stamped TIFFANY & CO. with added monogram R.M.L.
- favrile glass, the gold neck mount and screw-on cap set with diamonds and one emerald cabochon
the mount executed by the jewelry department at Tiffany & Co. under Paulding Farnham's direction
the favrile glass scent bottle executed by Tiffany Studios
the favrile glass scent bottle executed by Tiffany Studios
Provenance
Sotheby's Belgravia, April 30, 1981, lot 79
Literature
Janet Zapata, "The Rediscovery of Paulding Farnham, Tiffany's Designer Extraoridinaire, Part I: Jewelry", The Magazine Antiques, March 1991, pp. 556-567 (for a detailed discussion of Paulding Farnham and an illustration of a similar scent bottle)
Janet Zapata, The Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany, London, 1993, p. 12 (for a similar example)
John Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, pp. 224-225 (for related examples with mounts by Paulding Farnham)
Marilynn A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 51, cat. no. 10 (for a similar example)
Janet Zapata, The Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany, London, 1993, p. 12 (for a similar example)
John Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, pp. 224-225 (for related examples with mounts by Paulding Farnham)
Marilynn A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 51, cat. no. 10 (for a similar example)
Catalogue Note
Paulding Farnham, head designer at Tiffany & Co., created a series of precious vinaigrettes, or small purse-size scent bottles, for display at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. Farnham mounted similar favrile glass scent bottles executed by Tiffany Studios in gold and silver set with gem stones.
Sotheby’s wishes to thank Janet Zapata for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.