Patinated More Desk Accessories

A Tiffany Studios New York Favrile glass and patinated bronze "Counter Balance" desk lamp with an iridescent orange decorated Tiffany Favrile glass “Damsacene” pattern shade. The shade is signed, "L.C.T." and the base is impressed, "Tiffany Studios New York 418" Literature: A similar shade and base are pictured separately in: Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An illustrated reference to over 2000 models, by Alastair Duncan, Woodbridge: Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1988. Shade: p. 87, plate 342; base: p. 87, plate 344 Biography: Louis Comfort Tiffany embodied the rebellious artistic spirit of the Gilded Age. His career spanned more than half a century, from the 1870s to the mid-1920s – a time of experimentation, intense scrutiny of aesthetic ideals, and proliferation of new styles. Tiffany demonstrated a multitude of talents as an architect and painter and as a designer of interiors, landscapes, and all of the decorative arts. Together with his studios of artists, glassmakers, stonemasons, mosaicists, modelers, metalworkers, wood-carvers, potters and textile workers, Tiffany heralded in America the notion of continuity of design, orchestrating pattern, texture, color and light to create a single aesthetic expression. Born the son of the American businessman and jewelry maker, Charles Lewis Tiffany, studied art in Europe and Morocco as a young man. Soon after his return to the United States he began to participate in the Aesthetic Movement, which conferred a new, higher status to the decorative arts. Tiffany was particularly interested in the idea of intermingling all of the arts to create a complete, unified interior space and in 1878 designed his first interior – for his own home. Later, Tiffany established the interior-decorating firm in New York City which came to be known as Tiffany Studios. The firm specialized in favrile glass work, characterized by iridescent colors and natural forms in the art nouveau style. This work ranged from lamps and vases to stained-glass windows and a huge glass curtain for the national theater...

An Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau leaded stained glass, cast and patinated bronze "Dispersed Tulip" Table Lamp by, Tiffany Studios decorated with red, pink, pink/white dispersed tulips with green leafage against a white-yellow background. The shade rests a top a cast and patinated bronze "Three Ball" telescopic base. The shade is impressed "TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1560-16" and the base is impressed "TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 488" Provenance For Shade: Lillian Nassau...

An Early 20th century American Art Nouveau cast bronze and glass "Shower Lily" Desk Lamp by, Tiffany Studios decorated with three iridescent gold ruffled favrile lily shades set with...

Shining art nouveau decorative box with floral detail and charming patination. A handmade intricate design of brass tulip-style flowers and their leaves decorates the top of this...

Representative Art Nouveau Business Card Holder with Vienna Bronze Panther from the early 20th century in Austria around 1910. A great piece for your office/ writing desk to present ...

An Austrian Art Nouveau cold-painted and patinated bronze sculpture "The Scout" by, Carl Kauba. The sculpture depicts a Native American Indian Scout perched on the side of a cliff with rifle in hand. The sculpture is finished in its original bronze patina and further poly-chromed throughout. The sculpture is signed on the base "C. Kauba" further impressed "AUSTRIA" and further impressed "GESCHÜTZT Biography: Carl Kauba, Austrian (1865 - 1922) Carl Kauba was born August 13, 1865 in Vienna, Austria. The son of a shoemaker, Kauba chose to follow his calling into the world of art. Collectors now rank him in a class with Remington and Russell as one of the great portrayers of American Western. His subjects were typically American Indians, calvarymen, cowboys, and roughriders. In addition to his American bronzes, Kauba produced a lifetime’s worth of Austrian statuary. His work has been fully appreciated on both sides of the Atlantic. Carl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under professor Laufenberg. Later he would study at the academies under Carl Waschmann and Stefan Schwartz and in Paris in 1886 to further study. Kauba’s fascination with the West was fed by the stories of the German writer, Carl May, whose tales of Western adventures were known throughout Europe. It has been suggested that Kauba traveled to the American West when he was about twenty-five years old, possibly returning to Austria with voluminous notes, sketches, and several models of Western sculpture. However the majority of scholars feel that the artist actually never traveled to the United States at all, but instead relied upon the accounts of others and first hand artifacts to execute his bronzes. Without a doubt, his work is most worthy of artistic merit. His bronzes, all produced in Austria, were of the American West. The polychrome finish, intricate detail, and the realistic forms make Kauba’s sculptures excellent examples of Viennese bronzes at the turn of the century. Most were cast for the American market between 1895 and 1912 and were widely advertised and sold by Latendorfer in New York during the 1950’s. In contrast to most artists, Kauba’s business successes were equal to his artistic achievement. Kauba personally directed the casting of his clay models in local foundries. Kauba expressed a great affection for Indians of the American West. He loved ornament, and this detail is seen in the reins of his horses, Indian headdresses...

An American Art Nouveau cast bronze, patinated and glass "Blown Out Inkwell" by, Tiffany Studios with. a rich patinated cast bronze reticulated and further blown out green glass an...

Early 20th century Art Nouveau Pine needle pattern picture frame by, Tiffany Studios decorated with its original rich red brown patinated "pine needle' filigree pattern with green-white stippled stained glass leaded...

A early 20th century American Art Nouveau cast bronze and favrile glass Six Light Chandelier by, Tiffany Studios decorated with six blown iridescent pulled feather decorated Tiffany ...

An American Art Nouveau bronze and favrile "Newel Post" desk lamp by Tiffany Studios with three Tiffany Favrile tulip form "Pulled Feather" shades each decorated with iridescent pulled feather decoration against white transparent background. The shades are suspended from a three armed organically...

An American Art Nouveau patinated cast bronze and favrile glass "Damascene" desk lamp by, Tiffany Studios decorated with an iridescent red damascene shade with touches of purple, pin...

An extremely rare American Art Nouveau cast bronze and blown glass "Nine Light Lily" table lamp by, Quezal Glass & Decorating Co. decorated with nine matching heavily iridescent gold and ruffled Quezal art...