AN IMPORTANT JEWELLED AND BRONZE-MOUNTED 'AGATE' FAVRILE GLASS VASE BY TIFFANY STUDIOS Faceted, the thick avocado green glass decorated with caramel-brown combed swags within a reticulated bronze mount raised on seven linked peacock feather feet each set with a gold Favrile glass cabochon, the bronze inscribed Louis C. Tiffany-FAVRILE 546D--10¼in. (26.6cm.) high PROVENANCE Lillian Nassau, Ltd. Eugene and Eleanor Gluck Christie's, New York, Magnificent Tiffany, The Gluck Collection , February 17, 1979, lot 69 Lillian Nassau, Ltd. David Geffen Christie's, New York, Magnificent Tiffany, The David Geffen Collection , December 15, 1984, lot 14 EXHIBITED Washington, D.C., The Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany , September 29, 1989-March 4, 1990. This exhibition travelled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 12-September 9, 1990. LITERATURE Alastair Duncan et al., Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany , Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London, 1989, fig. 33; Alastair Duncan, Tiffany at Auction , Rizzoli, New York, 1981, p. 40, ill. 109
AN IMPORTANT JEWELLED AND BRONZE-MOUNTED 'AGATE' FAVRILE GLASS VASE BY TIFFANY STUDIOS Faceted, the thick avocado green glass decorated with caramel-brown combed swags within a reticulated bronze mount raised on seven linked peacock feather feet each set with a gold Favrile glass cabochon, the bronze inscribed Louis C. Tiffany-FAVRILE 546D--10¼in. (26.6cm.) high PROVENANCE Lillian Nassau, Ltd. Eugene and Eleanor Gluck Christie's, New York, Magnificent Tiffany, The Gluck Collection , February 17, 1979, lot 69 Lillian Nassau, Ltd. David Geffen Christie's, New York, Magnificent Tiffany, The David Geffen Collection , December 15, 1984, lot 14 EXHIBITED Washington, D.C., The Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany , September 29, 1989-March 4, 1990. This exhibition travelled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 12-September 9, 1990. LITERATURE Alastair Duncan et al., Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany , Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London, 1989, fig. 33; Alastair Duncan, Tiffany at Auction , Rizzoli, New York, 1981, p. 40, ill. 109
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