Tiffany Studios

Christie's New York, June 14, 1986, lot 505

Jennifer A. Rennie, A Great Capacity for Beauty:  The Tiffany Glass Collection at the Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington, Accrington, 2012, p. 44, no. 39 (for a closely related example)
Paul E. Doros, The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2013, p. 95 (for a related example in a variant color palette)

Overall in very good condition. With a few minute air bubble and particulate inclusions inherent in the making. The interior of the vase, just below the rim, with an applied thread of glass, also inherent in the making and not at all visible on the exterior. The exterior of the vase with a few very light and fine surface scratches at the outermost contours of the shoulder. The vase interior is cased in white. The exterior is beautifully iridized imparting the vase with strong luminosity and a range of brilliant hues. A very attractive example displaying impressive scale, brilliant color and finely articulated decoration.
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