Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios

Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios

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Property from the Geyer Collection

TIFFANY STUDIOS | "POPPY" MOSAIC INKSTAND

Auction Closed

December 12, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Geyer Collection

TIFFANY STUDIOS

"POPPY" MOSAIC INKSTAND


circa 1903

with a rare decorated favrile glass inkwell liner and cover

mosaic favrile glass, favrile glass, patinated bronze

impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/29936 with the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company monogram

inkwell liner engraved L.C.T. Favrile

3¼ in. (8.3 cm) high

4 in. (10.2 cm) diameter

Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, p. 185 (for the model illustrated in a period photograph of Clara Driscoll in her workroom at Tiffany Studios, 1901)

Paul E. Doros, The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Norfolk, VA, 1978, p. 149, no. 219

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, p. 43

Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1989, p. 90

Takeo Horiuchi, ed., The World of Louis Comfort Tiffany: A Selection from the Anchorman Collection, Nagoya, Japan, 1994, p. 130

Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, PA, 2001, p. 115 (for the above mentioned period photograph)

John Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, p. 191

Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 368 and 369 (for the above mentioned period photograph)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, p. 428, no. 1701 and p. 430, no. 1709

Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, exh. cat., New York Historical Society, 2007, p. 74, fig. 37 and p. 110, fig. 66 (for the above mentioned period photograph)

Kelly A. Conway and Lindsy R. Parrott, Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2017, p. 200