Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios
Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios
Property from the Geyer Collection
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