The Doros Collection: The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany
The Doros Collection: The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Tiffany Studios
Red "Byzantine" Vase
Auction Closed
December 8, 12:14 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Tiffany Studios
Red "Byzantine" Vase
circa 1905
Favrile glass
engraved L.C. Tiffany-Favrile 7343A
7⅜ inches (18.7 cm) high
7⅜ inches (18.7 cm) diameter
Paul Doros, The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2013, p. 210 (for the present lot illustrated)
A Beautiful Hue
An 1898 article on Favrile glass asserted that the Tiffany glasshouse was able to produce “5,000 colors and varieties.” As impressive as that number might be, the range of colors available to Tiffany’s craftsmen was practically infinite, thanks largely to the ingenuity of Arthur J. Nash, the glasshouse’s superintendent. Among the most noteworthy color from the very beginning of the firm’s history were the reds. A review of an 1894 exhibition observed:
On the tables are arranged exquisite flower shapes, slender vases and leaf-like cups, showing a wonderful variety of tints, ranging from the pale green of aquamarine to the glowing red of sang-boeuf, sometimes blended, sometimes a bit of color isolated in one piece. These show the perfection which glass-blowing in color has been brought by the Tiffany Company.
- PD