ATTRIBUTED TO TIFFANY STUDIOS | AN EARLY AND RARE DECORATED VASE

Acquired directly from the family of an employee of Tiffany Studios

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate, New York, 2006, p. 121 (for a related vase from the same series)

The present vase is an exceptionally rare and unusual work attributed to Tiffany Studios. Though unsigned, the vase is remarkably similar in style and execution to a known “A-Coll” vase from the collection of Louis C. Tiffany. That vase was subsequently owned by one of Tiffany’s associates and attorneys, Joseph M. Levine. Each of these two vases features dynamic iridized glass trailings which emulate branches or even flowing lava. Though unsigned, the incredible artistry and naturalism of the present vase is certainly of the same caliber of Tiffany’s most complex and experimental works.