Tiffany Studios Furniture
The hand-crafted kerosene and early electric lighting fixtures created at Tiffany Studios now rank among the most coveted decorative objects in the world. Tiffany designs of any kind are emblematic of taste and craftsmanship, and Tiffany glass refers to far more than stained-glass windows and decorative glass objects. The iconic multimedia manufactory’s offerings include stained-glass floor lamps, chandeliers and enameled metal vases. The most recognizable and prized of its works are antique Tiffany Studios table lamps.
The name Tiffany generally prompts thoughts of two things: splendid gifts in robin’s-egg blue boxes and exquisite stained glass. In 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany co-founded the former — Tiffany & Co., one of America’s most prominent purveyors of luxury goods — while his son, Louis Comfort Tiffany, is responsible for exemplars of the latter.
Louis was undoubtedly the most influential and accomplished American decorative artist in the decades that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rather than join the family business, he studied painting with several teachers, notably the scenic painter Samuel Colman, while spending long periods touring Europe and North Africa. Though he painted his entire career, visits to continental churches sparked a passionate interest in stained glass. Tiffany began experimenting with the material and in 1875 opened a glass factory-cum-laboratory in Corona, Queens — the core of what eventually became Tiffany Studios.
In his glass designs, Tiffany embraced the emerging Art Nouveau movement and its sinuous, naturalistic forms and motifs. By 1902, along with glass, Tiffany was designing stained-glass lamps and chandeliers as well as enameled metal vases, boxes and bowls, and items such as desk sets and candlesticks. Today such pieces epitomize the rich aesthetics of their era.
The lion’s share of credit for Tiffany Studios table lamps and other fixtures has gone to Louis. However, it was actually Clara Driscoll (1861–1944), an Ohio native and head of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department for 17 years, who was the genius behind the Tiffany lamps that are most avidly sought by today’s collectors. A permanent gallery of Tiffany lamps at the New-York Historical Society celebrates the anonymous women behind the desirable fixtures.
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Tiffany Studios New York Flower Form Favrile Glass Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This Tiffany Studios New York flower form Favrile glass vase is uniquely shaped roughly in the silhouette of a curled flower not yet in bloom, with a rounded, rippled rim. The vase features a green pulled-feather decoration on a cream ground, each feather-pull elegantly mimicking the natural veining and variation of hues that would be found on a young leaf or stem. The vase has an opalescent pink goblet...
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1910s American Art Nouveau Vintage Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Tiffany Studios Very Fine Decorated Ruby Red Favrile Glass Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios,
circa 1907
Very fine decorated ruby red favrile glass vase
Engraved L.C.Tiffany Favrile 9969B
Measures: Height 5 7/8 in. (14.92 cm)
B...
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Early 1900s Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Tiffany Studios Carved Cameo "Flower" Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios
Carved cameo "Flower" vase
engraved L.C. Tiffany-Favrile 3431 J,
circa 1904-1906 Dimensions:
Height 8 in. (20.32 cm.)
Diameter 3 1/8 in. (7.93 cm.).
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Early 1900s Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Glass
Carved Tiffany Favrile Glass Egyptian Collar Vase, Tiffany Studios
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios,
circa 1912
Fine carved Tiffany Favrile glass Egyptian collar vase,
of baluster form, the shoulder carved with a band of flowers
En...
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1910s Vintage Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Tiffany Studios Chinese Pattern Box
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The largest variation of this box in a nice gold doré finish.
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Early 1900s American Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York “Tel el Amarna” Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York glass vase. A wide-shouldered, unique translucent gold body with a band of green colored Egyptian-inspired “Tel-El-Amarna” design around the neck.
A vase with similar decoration is pictured in: Tiffany at Auction...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Tiffany Studios New York "Morning Glory" Paperweight Favrile Glass Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This Favrile glass "Morning Glory" vase by Tiffany Studios New York is a stunning example of paperweight glass, perfected by Louis Comfort Tiffany. This vase in particular displays purple and white cream blooming morning glories with artistic veined green leaves and stems against an iridescent, translucent light-green-hued ground. The incredibly-detailed representation of these morning glory flowers, and the inclusion of their star-like inner coloration and markings, makes this vase highly desirable to collectors.
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 9" height, 5.25" diameter
Materials: Favrile glass
Signed: "1616L," "L.C. Tiffany - Favrile"
Literature: Vase with similar decoration pictured in Louis C. Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, by Marilynn A. Johnson, London: Scala Publishers, Ltd., 2005, p. 150, ca. not. 56; Vase with similar decoration also pictured in The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Art Nouveau Desk Set by Tiffany Calendar, Ink Dryer, Box and Clip
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Weiningen, CH
Art Nouveau desk set by Tiffany calendar, ink dryer, box and clip
Sizes:
Measures: Perpetual calendar 16 x 16 cm
Box 10 x 7 x 4 cm
Clip 6 x 10 x 3...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Brass
Tiffany Studios Decorated Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios
Decorated vase
engraved L.C.T X1150
favrile glass
Measures: Height 8 11/16 in. (22.06 cm)
Diameter 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm.),
circa 1897-1899
Literature:
John Lo...
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1890s Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Pastel Tiffany Favrile Glass Three Piece Garniture
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios,
circa 1925
Fine pastel Tiffany Favrile glass three-piece garniture, comprising a tazza and a pair of candlesticks
Engraved L....
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1920s Vintage Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Tiffany Studios "Nasturtium" Paperweight Glass Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios
"Nasturtium" paperweight glass vase
engraved 3595N L.C. Tiffany-Inc. Favrile
also with firms paper label
circa 1919
favrile glass
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm) high
Provenance:
Sotheby's New York
December 15, 2006
Private Swiss Collection
Lillian Nassau...
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1910s Vintage Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Glass
Tiffany Studios New York “Tel El Amarna” Glass Pedestal Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York Art Nouveau Favrile glass pedestal vase. Iridescent sepia body with iridescent gold shoulders featuring a sage-green an...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Tiffany Studios New York Enameled Copper "Olive" Covered Box
By Stonebridge Glass Co., Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This Tiffany Studios New York covered box by Louis Comfort Tiffany, covered with an enamel "Olive" motif, was executed by the Enamelware Department of The Stonebridge Glass Company in New York. The stoic composition is primarily composed of richly enameled copper, with the cover and body of this rare piece sharing decoration of subtly-hued olives, with purple-brown copper branches and deep green leaves. While the rarity of the object itself makes it an incredibly collectible item, the easy beauty of the composition also makes it an instant treasure.
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Circa: 1905
Dimensions: 5.25" height, 6.5" diameter
Materials: Repoussé copper, Enamel and counter enamel
Signed: "Louis C. Tiffany and impressed SC 332"
Provenance: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, Private Collection, circa 1965, thence by descent to the present owners
Literature: Box pictured in Behind the Scenes of Tiffany Glassmaking: The Nash Notebooks, by Martin Eidelberg and Nancy McClelland, New York, 2001, pp. 21 and 178 (for the model executed in pottery); Box also pictured in Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, by Alastair Duncan, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 466 (for the model executed in pottery) and p. 471 (for the model executed in bronze pottery)
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Copper
Tiffany Studios New York Favrile Glass Elongated Flower Form Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This unique Favrile glass flower form vase from Tiffany Studios New York features a bulbous bowl and elongated internal spiral twisted stem. The vase displays a leaf-like pulled motif outlined in deep orange-red with a white feathered swirl decoration, which is also duplicated on the foot.
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 12" height, 4" diameter
Materials: Favrile glass
Signed: “07668 L.C.T.”
Literature: Vase with similar motif pictured in Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty, by Martin Eidelberg, New York: Lillian Nassau...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Very Fine Tiffany, Favrile Glass Floriform Vase Tiffany Studios
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios
circa 1897-1899
A very fine Tiffany, Favrile glass Floriform vase, of iridescent pale amber glass decorated with feathered trails.
En...
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1890s Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Internally Decorated "Aquamarine" Tiffany Favrile Glass Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany Studios,
circa 1912
Rare Internally Decorated "Aquamarine" exhibition quality Tiffany Favrile Glass Vase
Engraved L.C. Tiffany-Favrile 5822 G, with firms paper label
Height 12 in. (30.48 cm.), Diameter 5 in. (12.70 cm.)
Provenance
Christie's New York
Important Tiffany Glass from The Minna Rosenblatt Gallery
December 10,2003
Lot 454
LITERATURE:
John Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002,Martin Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest for Beauty, New York, 2007
Catalogue note:
AQUAMARINE
One of the last major innovations in Tiffany Studios' glassmaking was the introduction of Aquamarine glass about 1912.
The Tiffany craftsmen had been using paperweight techniques for a decade (works in which floral motives were worked in hot glass and then encased within layers of additional glass).
Those made around 1900 generally had a shimmering golden background but, around 1910, this changed to a clear, transparent glass.
Aquamarine glass introduced a subtle, green-tinged material that suggested a watery realm.
Cased within the glass are yellow flowered plants like the one in this vase, floating in an aqueous world is this water lily.
To further the illusion of watery depths, the glass itself is quite thick offering the viewer different perspectives such as one has when peering through actual water.
Tiffany Studios' difficulty in making this glass was constantly emphasized. Not only was there the difficulty of properly annealing the many layers but equally challenging was the manipulation of the weighty glass ball while it was still hot and fluid.
These technical difficulties caused much breakage, and the Aquamarine vases were costly as a result.
Several examples were shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco.
Martin Eidelberg
Literature
Elizabeth Lounsbery, "Aquamarine Glass," American Homes and Gardens, vol. 10, December 1913, p. 419 (for a period illustration of other aquamarine vases)
Albert Christian Revi, American Art Nouveau Glass, Camden, NJ, 1968, p. 61, pl. 94 (for an illustration of an aquamarine glass doorstop...
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1910s Vintage Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Glass
19th Century Tiffany Studios Gilt Bronze Branch Form Candelabra
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Cincinnati, OH
This matched pair of Art Nouveau gilt bronze candelabra were made by Tiffany Studios of New York. The candelabra have an naturalistic form modeled after tree branches and feature six...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Gilded Age Heavy Gilt Bronze Urns
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
American gilded age period pair of Tiffany urns made in heavy cast gilt bronze. This rare pair was made in the Tiffany Studios in New York City during the ...
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Early 1900s American Neoclassical Revival Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Fine and Rare Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios "Agate" Favrile Vase
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Englewood, NJ
A fine and rare American Art Nouveau blown Tiffany Favrile "Agate" vase decorated with a brown and lime green zipper decoration against a streaky yellow-greenish background. The vase...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Blown Glass
Tiffany Studios New York 7-Piece "Pond Lily" Desk Set
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
Tiffany Studios’ Pond Lily Desk Set is a rare model, with only three extant sets known. The set is decorated with a dazzling array of lily pads, lily buds, dragonflies, and moths. Th...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Bamboo" Table Lamp
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
Among the most harmonious of Tiffany Studios New York's compositions is the "Bamboo" lamp, comprised of a leaded glass "Bamboo" dome shade, decorated, of course, with a field of the ...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios 5 Legged, Counter Balance Floor Lamp w/ Period Slag Glass Shade
By Kokomo Glass Company, Tiffany Studios
Located in Petaluma, CA
This 5 legged, counter balance signed Tiffany Studios floor lamp has the etched gilt finish with all the original parts. The shade is not Tiffany, but a really fine and appropriate ...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Venetian Bronze Paperweight
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous antique bronze paperweight in the Venetian design
By Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside)
New York, USA, Early 20th Century
Measures: 4.25"W x 2.5"D x 0.88"H
Good...
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Important and Rare 12-Light Moorish Hanging Fixture, by Tiffany Studios
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
Having 12 gold iridescent Tiffany Favrile Glass “Tulip” Shades suspended from an elaborate system of graduated chains and patinated bronze balls, all surrounding a suspended large go...
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Early 20th Century American Moorish Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios Graduate Pattern Bronze Blotter Ends With Leather Desk Blotter
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous pair of Art Deco or Arts & Crafts period patinated bronze Graduate pattern blotter ends, with a custom brown leather desk blotter.
By Tiffany Studios (signed to the under...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Five-Light Tulip Ceiling Fixture
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This Tiffany Studios New York "Five-Light" chandelier, features five golden iridescent Favrile tulip shades suspended along with loosely interlocking, heavy circular gilt bronze link...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Belted Turtleback" Chandelier
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
The "Belted Turtleback" Chandelier by Tiffany Studios New York is a refined study in monochromatic expression. Separated into three distinct tiers, the conical lamp shade offers a ma...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Plain Squares" Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
The plain squares pattern from Tiffany Studios features columns of amber glass rectangles, arranged with precision to mirror the intricate veining observed in insect wings. The fusio...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Eighteen Light Lily" Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This Tiffany Studios New York glass and patinated bronze "Eighteen-Light-Lily" table lamp, featuring eighteen golden iridescent Favrile glass "Lily" shades on individual bronze stems...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Lotus Bell" Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This Tiffany Studios New York glass and bronze “Lotus Bell” table lamp, features a mottled jade green and cream-white leaded glass shade, suspended fro...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Apple Blossom" Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York "Apple Blossom" glass and bronze table lamp. The shade features amber & green streaky glass branches with pink and white apple blossoms. The tonality of the leaves ranges from dense, deep greens at the crown to lighter greens below. The apple blossoms range from white at the shade's irregular border to pink with touches of red towards the crown. Tiffany's artisans skillfully incorporated specialized types of glass into the lampshade, specifically using foliage and granite glass. The unique texture of these glass varieties gives rise to a captivating interaction between degrees of translucency and opacity, evoking the dappled effect of sunlight filtering through tree branches. The shade sits atop a patinated bronze tree trunk base and is specially designed to fit it. The patinated bronze openwork crown lattice at the top of the shade resembles tree branches and is a direct extension of the base. Flowering apple trees grew on the grounds of his Laurelton Hall estate and appear as a motif in many of his windows and lamps. The spreading “Apple Blossom” lamp is the most stunning and realistic tree shape that Tiffany ever produced. Its intricacy and delicacy imbue the piece with radiant beauty and give it marked significance within the world of Tiffany lamps.
Product Details:
Item #: L-21088
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1905
Dimensions: 30" height, 25" diameter
Materials: Favrile Glass, Bronze
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 7809 - 7
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 351 S166
Literature: The Lamps of Tiffany Studios by William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, P. 108-109. Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, & Lamps: A Complete Collector’s Guide, by Robert Koch, P. 132, Plate 209. Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, by Alastair Duncan, P. 285. Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An Illustrated Reference to Over 2000 Models, by Alastair Duncan, P. 69. The Lamps of Tiffany, by Dr. Egon Neustadt, Pp 201-204.
Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes:
As a gardener, the apple was one of Tiffany’s favorite plants, providing beauty in the spring and sustenance in the fall. In 1875, Tiffany photographed his wife Mary Goddard Tiffany and daughter Mae Mae picking apple blossoms on the grounds of his father Charles’ eighteenth century Dutch farmhouse in Irvington, NY. As a matter of both aesthetic and sentimental significance, Tiffany lined...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Damascene Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This delicately sized Tiffany Studios New York “Damascene” lamp is superbly colored in blood-orange and gold. Trails of blood orange glass were applied...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Japanese Garden Scene" Picture Frame
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
Louis Comfort Tiffany’s garden scene showcases a Japanese stream garden or Yaramizu. The stream is a major element in Chinese and Japanese landscape design, partly because it represents the Daoist notion of permanent impermanence, always flowing yet always the same. The garden is decorated with a small bamboo moon bridge, a stone lantern (toro), and teeming with Japanese iris, narcissus, butterflies, and cattails. A knotted willow tree winds its way around the frame. The willow tree was a prominent feature in Hiroshige’s 100 Views of Edo...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Graduate Bronze Box
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous antique bronze Graduate pattern desk box, jewelry box, or decorative box with verdigris green patina
By Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside)
New York, USA, Early 20...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Graduate Bronze Pen Tray
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous antique bronze Graduate pattern desk pen tray with verdigris green patina
By Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside)
New York, USA, Early 20th Century
Measures: 8.75"...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Belted Turtleback" Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
The "Belted Turtleback" table lamp by Tiffany Studios New York is a refined study in monochromatic expression. Separated into three distinct tiers, the conical lamp shade offers a ma...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Bronze
Louis Comfort Tiffany Favrile Iridescent Art Glass Plate
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau Favrile iridescent art glass plate
By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany Studios
USA, circa 1900
M...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Furniture
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Art Glass
Tiffany Studios New York "Peony" Table Lamp
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
Tiffany’s “Peony” table lamp was a work grounded in naturalism but reaching for the divine. With a shade of resplendent blooms and a mosaic base evoking the hallowed ground of church floors, Tiffany’s peony lamp demonstrates his foundation in both Art nouveau and ecclesiastical art. To depict his multi-hued bouquet, Tiffany depicted two different cultivars, a Greek peony, and a Japanese peony. Tiffany used burgundy glass streaked with lapis to express the richness of the Greek Peony. Favored by neoclassical artists for their symmetry and simplicity, Tiffany featured the bloom in the architecture of his country estate. To represent the candy-striped Japanese peony Shima Nishiki, Tiffany used cream glass streaked with fuschia. The shade elegantly depicts different stages of growth from the bud, first bloom, peak bloom, to wilting. When peony petals wilt, their veins darken, and their form puckers. Tiffany’s glass selectors chose a stone textured glass called granite glass to express the wilting of the petals and their pronounced venation. The background and border of the shade is a golden amber, streaked with magenta and blue. The top-down perspective of the peony with a dirt background was a type of painting called “Rasenstück”, a detailed study of a piece of turf. The crux of the Rasenstück was the elevation of the humble. Popularized in the nineteenth century by the American Pre-Raphaelites, the movement believed in the idea of "truth to nature". The principle encouraged painters to capture the natural world as truthfully as possible, not romanticizing what they saw. In these nature studies, painters depicted flowers and trees in the soil from which they grew.
While sublime on its own, the shade and base taken together paint a picture of Tiffany’s Japanese garden. Peonies imported from the far east bordered serene ponds. A frieze of turtleback tiles hypnotizes the viewers with its scarlet glow, evoking the red flash of a sunset, as seen through a field of cattails, rendered in bronze. Below it, the row of cat tails blends into a mosaic of red, yellow, and green glass. While Tiffany’s chief designer Clara Driscoll is most famous for her naturalistic lamp designs, the bread and butter of Tiffany Studios was its ecclesiastical department. Red, yellow, and green colorways were widely used in the depiction of Baroque angels, whose wings were modeled after birds of paradise. As hunters removed their legs upon sale, many believed they neither ate nor drank, and instead floated ethereally like angels.
A lamp such as this epitomizes Tiffany’s understanding of his artistic vision in the context of the entire history of artistic expression. Since falling in love with glass at age twelve in the cathedrals of Chartres, light itself became a representation of divinity. A contemporary critic described Tiffany’s mosaics...
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Early 20th Century American Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Lead
Tiffany Studios New York "Dogwood" Floor Lamp
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
The shade of this Tiffany Studios New York "Dogwood" leaded glass floor lamp features a bouquet of pink, white, and cream dogwood blossoms agai...
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Early 20th Century American Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Wisteria" Table Lamp
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This remarkable Tiffany Studios New York "Wisteria" table lamp is a very fine and unusually rare lamp, composed of a palette of wisteria blossoms in shades of blue, green, cream and white that cascade down the shade to an irregular border. The blossoms are surrounded by abundant leaves in varying shades of green and are delicately interspersed with "confetti" glass, lending them added three-dimensionality. The shade has a latticework top, portraying the branches and stems of a wisteria vine. The base, designed specifically to hold the shade, is also embellished with vegetal, vine-like properties.
Product Details:
Item #: L-20375
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1902
Dimensions: 18.5" diameter, 27" height
Materials: Leaded glass, Bronze
Shade Signed: Interior of shade crown impressed 1073 and 13; underside of shade mounting post impressed 1073 and 13
Base Signed: ''Tiffany Studios New York 1073"; top of tree trunk column impressed 13
Literature: Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, pl. v
Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 215-220
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 89, no. 238 and 148, no. 391
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, p. 37
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1989, p. 131
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, PA, 2001, pp. 74, 242 and 284
Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 292-293
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 107
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, p. 67, no. 254
Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls...
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Early 20th Century American Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Lead
Tiffany Studios New York "Turteback Tile" Chandelier
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
Rippling undulations in gold iridescence and soft, organic lines dominate this ethereal but weighty composition, an exceptional example of a Tiffany Studios New York "Turtleback Tile" chandelier. Three tiers of vertically oriented rectangular Turtleback tiles with rounded corners graduate in size, with substantially sized tiles decorating the bottom-most tier and the apex of the domed shade featuring tightly clustered tiles in miniature. Sumptuous and romantically uneven borders frame each tile, accentuating their unique silhouettes and adding a dark, matte element to contrast the bright, shimmering gold that dominates the shade.
Item #: L-20333
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900
Size: 18.5" diameter
Materials: Patinated Bronze, Leaded Glass
Signed: "Tiffany Studios"
Literature: A similar chandelier is pictured in Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An illustrated reference to over 2000 models by Alastair Duncan, Woodbridge: Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1988, p. 281, plate 109
Macklowe Gallery Curators notes:
he same model was on display at the Cooper Hewitt Museum's Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood De Forest...
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Mid-19th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Lead
Tiffany Studios New York "Jeweled Geometric" Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This Tiffany Studios New York "Jeweled Geometric" leaded glass and bronze table lamp features an enticing shade, comprised primarily of gradient-hued green glass in a geometric arrangement. This lovely pattern is interrupted by thick band of bronze openwork in a vegetal pattern, beautifully adorned with iridescent glass beads of various colors, imitating the appearance of beautiful cabochon jewels. The shade sits atop a patinated bronze telescoping "Ball" base. The finial cap is adorned by a glass bead.
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Circa: 1910
Dimensions: 22.5" diameter, 30.25" height
Materials: Leaded glass, bronze
Shade Signed: ''Tiffany Studios New York''
Base Signed: ''Tiffany Studios New York 10922''
Literature: Table lamp pictured in The Lamps of Tiffany...
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1910s North American Art Nouveau Vintage Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Prism" Favrile Ceiling Light Fixture
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This unique Tiffany Studios New York Favrile glass and bronze "Prism" ceiling light fixture, featuring a large decorated center glass shade, surrounded by a circular row of grandiose...
Category
1910s American Art Nouveau Vintage Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Excellent Tiffany Studios N Y Poppy Lamp with a Rare Blown Glass/ Bronze Base
By Tiffany Studios
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Tiffany Studios New York glass and bronze "Poppy" table lamp featuring a leaded glass shade depicting crimson red poppy blossoms with multi-hued green leaves against a mottled oran...
Category
Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Tiffany Studios Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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Tiffany Studios furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Tiffany Studios furniture, although gold editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Tiffany Studios were created in the Art Nouveau style in north america during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Charles L. Tiffany, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and G. None. Prices for Tiffany Studios furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $425 and can go as high as $1,650,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,695.
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- Where was the Tiffany studio?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022The original Tiffany studio was in the borough of Queens in New York, New York. Specifically, Louis Comfort Tiffany established his workshop a t96-18 43rd Avenue in the Corona neighborhood. You'll find a variety of Louis Comfort Tiffany furniture, art and jewelry on 1stDibs.
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