By Tiffany Studios
Located in Englewood, NJ
An early 20th century American Art Nouveau blown glass and applied perfume bottle by, Tiffany Studios decorated with applied tadpole decoration against a heavily iridescent gold background retaining its original stopper. The bottle is signed, "L.C.Tiffany Favrile " circa 1900
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Condition:
Very Good Condition with very minimal wear, no loss to applied decorations.
Biography:
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848 - 1933)
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...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau New Jersey Bottles
MaterialsArt Glass, Blown Glass