Louis Comfort Tiffany Furniture

Tiffany Studios ‘Cobra’ Candlestick made of Bronze with Tiffany Iridescent Favrile Glass ‘Pulled Feather’ Shade circa 1905-1910. Iconic example of legendary Tiffany design and craft...

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)"Linen Fold" "Favrile-Fabrique" Very Fine Leaded Glass and Patinated Bronze Table Lamp Shade Stamped: TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1927 PAT. APPL'D FOR base stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 587 24 1/2 in.(62.2 cm) high 19 3/8 in.(49.21 cm) diameter of shade Provenance: Sotheby's New York 20th Century Decorative Arts March 11...

A rare opal Louis Comfort Tiffany, signed, two handled miniature vase. Signed '27 - 4925N L C Tiffany - Favrile' around the base dating it to just after WW1 -alas the signature is v...

Pair of Tiffany & Co. sterling silver candle holders, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, with curvilinear wave-style motifs. They measure 3 1/3'' in height by 3 3/4'' in diameter at ...

Designed to celebrate the opening of the Engineers Club in New York City in 1907, by Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany and Company, the firm founded by his father, this rare and lustrous pair of bronze goblets demonstrate the artistry and gorgeous workmanship of Tiffany and his bronze foundry. The construction of the Club was largely funded by Andrew Carnegie...

A pair of premier quality Tiffany Favrile Glass Candle Shades in rich iridescent gold fabric fold design. Both shades are signed L.C.T. and are in perfect condition. Shades measure...

A beautiful example of a leaded art glass music window depicting wing cherubs, playing musical instruments, executed with Tiffany furnace mottel lamp glass set as the background We acquired this window because we were told it was from the Frederick Aimes estate being that we have previously purchased the 11 foot Lafarge window...

This Tiffany Studios New York centerpiece, features deep-blue green iridescent Favrile glass, decorated with a iridescent green leaf and vine decoration. The charming piece features ...

A colorful iridescent favrile glass vase in beautiful tulip form by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Signed on the base. This LC Tiffany Favrile vase has a timeless design and coordinates well...

Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) Reactive Blown Glass Vase, of waisted ovoid form with a subtly toned gold, pink, blue and green iridescent ground with a secondary medial ...

A gorgeous Art Deco period gilt bronze plate or tray with enameled decoration By Louis Comfort Tiffany Furnaces (signed to the underside) New York, ...

Set of tablewares made in favril glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1900. Engraved "L.C.T" signature under each piece. All pieces are in perfect condition. Very nice colors and qua...

An impressive early 20th Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with green hearts shining through an attractive golden iridescence, signed L C Tiffany Favrile and numbered to base. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 23 cm Condition: Very Good Condition Circa: 1905 Materials: Iridescent Coloured Glass SKU: 6667 ABOUT Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork. Early Life He was born in New York City, New York, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866-67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868-69. Belly’s landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany. Career Louis started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. The business was short-lived, lasting only four years. The group made designs for wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. He later opened his own glass factory in Corona, New York, determined to provide designs that improved the quality of contemporary glass. Tiffany’s leadership and talent, as well as his father’s money and connections, led this business to thrive. In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. He worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding an opalescent floor-to-ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. The Tiffany screen and other Victorian additions were all removed in the Roosevelt renovations of 1902, which restored the White House interiors to Federal style in keeping with its architecture. A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In the beginning of his career, he used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed the “copper foil” technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany’s chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s. In 1889 at the Paris Exposition, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrilein conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons He trademarked Favrile (from the old French word for handmade) on November 13, 1894. He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. His first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany...

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period gilt bronze charger plate with enameled jewel decoration By Louis Comfort Tiffany Furnaces Inc. (signed to the underside) New York, USA,...

This set of four art glass open salt cellars were made by the iconic American glass maker Louis Comfort Tiffany in circa 1890 in the period Victorian ...

Large Tiffany Studios Gold Favrile trumpet vase, 1908 Marks: 32565C L.C. Tiffany-Favrile, (applied paper label) Dimensions: Height: 16.5 inches (41....

Tiffany & Co. sterling silver bud vase, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, adorned with natural motifs. It measures 5 1/3'' in height by 1 1/8'' in diameter at the top, weighs 5.2 tr...

Beautiful early 20th century Tiffany Favrile glass boudoir lamp. The lamp features a conical glass shade and baluster base with gold/amber "Arabian" pattern discoloration and applied...

A gilt bronze “Zodiac” match box holder by Tiffany Studios New York. The match box holder features intricate pseudo-Celtic patterning interspersed wit...

Tall Tiffany Studios wheel-carved Favrile glass leaves vase, 1918 Art Nouveau. Marks: 7062M L.C. Tiffany Inc. Favrile Measures: Height: 11.85 inches (29.8 cm) Diameter: 3.5 Inc...

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass bowl with scalloped edge By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside) New York...

Louis Comfort Tiffany iridescent and gold favrile glass goblet. Paper label on base. Dimensions: 9.75"H x 3.5"D.

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass footed bowl or compote dish By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside) USA, ...

A gorgeous set of three Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass finger bowls or salt cellars with ruffled edges By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany Studios...

Original signed Louis Comfort Tiffany Trumpet vase 6292 art glass vase in great condition mid 20th century. This is a gorgeous Art Nouveau L.C. Ti...

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass finger bowl with underplate By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany Studios (both pieces signed to the under...

A gorgeous English traditional bronze picture frame featuring a motif of knights, crests, and heraldic symbols By Louis Comfort Tiffany Furnaces Inc. New York, USA, 1920s Measures...

Tiffany Studios by Louis Comfort Tiffany, rare orange, red and gold iridescent Favrile glass bowl, USA, New York circa 1895-1905. Marks : 1073-5056 M L.C. Tiffany Inc. Favrile

A (2) two piece grouping of LCT Tiffany Studios favrile art glass including a ruffled dish and underplate. Each piece has a onion skin style appearance and wonderful iridescent color...

Two premier quality Tiffany Favrile Glass Candle Shades in iridescent gold with a soft honey comb design. Both shades are signed L.C.T. and are in perfect condition. Shades measure...

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass footed bowl or compote dish with ruffled edge and pulled feather design. By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tif...

A wonderful L.C.T. gold Favrile champagne or sorbet glass cup with engraved grape clusters and wine leaves. Engraved signature: “L.C.T. Favrile” Measures: Height 3.4 Inches, diamet...

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)

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass pulled feather tall trumpet vase on artichoke form bronze stand By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany Stud...

An alluring and visually rewarding example of Tiffany Studios New York's great "Greek Key" table lamp. Mottled glass in hues of warm amber and bright sunshine yellow soften the wonde...

The "Jonquil-Daffodil" table lamp by Tiffany Studios New York features a dome-shaped shade, divided charmingly into two bands of joyously brig...

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. The dragonfly and moth was a leitmotif of the Art Nouveau, but Louis Tiffany encountered the creatures and explored their form and significance throughout his childhood and artistic life, beginning as a youngster who sketched au plein air in the woods and wetlands surrounding his father’s summer house. At his Laurelton Hall estate, an artwork of nature coaxed into form over decades, Tiffany observed these insects in the teeming saltwater marshes and wetlands of Oyster Bay. The crown jewel of his Laurelton Hall garden was a water lily pond filled with varieties of colored water lilies, a novelty that debuted at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. Tiffany proceeded to make a series of designs based on the pond lily which he displayed to much acclaim in the 1902 Turin Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna. Product Details: Item #: T-21399 Artist: Tiffany Studios New York Country: United States Circa: 1905 Materials: Patinated Bronze Signed: blotter ends, inkstand, calendar frame, pen tray and rocker blotter each impressed "Tiffany Studios New York"; the inkstand, pen tray, rocker blotter and blotter ends further impressed with firm's respective model numbers Literature: Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany...