TIFFANY STUDIOS | “Queen Anne's Lace” Candlestick

with a hand-blown “Flower Form” ribbed shade

Zachary Skarda, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2006

Paul E. Doros, The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Norfolk, 1978, p. 143
Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 352
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, p. 387, no. 1579
David A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, New York, 2013, p. 149
Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, PA, 2016, p. 126

Overall very good condition. The patinated bronze surfaces display a rich brown-red patina, with some scattered surface scratches and abrasions, and with some light surface soiling to the recessed contours of the design, consistent with age and gentle use. The blown favrile glass ribbed shade is beautifully iridized and greatly enhances the sculptural presence of the candlestick. The favrile glass with some scattered minor air bubbles and particulate inclusions inherent in the making and not visually detractive. With a period bobeche; the bobeche receiver appears to be a later replacement. A gorgeous example of this complex candlestick design with a complementary and highly sculptural shade pairing.
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