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Lot 557W Catalog Description: "The three enormous ceilings from Maxwell?s Plum and the Russian Tea Room epitomize the spectacle and showmanship of restaurateur Warner LeRoy. Contemporary craftsmen reordered the distinctive Tiffany pieces of mottled and confetti glass, as well as rippled glass, square frogs? backs, and circular jewel pieces into incomparable pieces of art. Maxwell?s Plum?s intricately-cut ceiling is 800 square feet of backlit Tiffany glass, installed in 126 two foot-by two-foot sections to create an exuberantly floral pattern with elaborate blossoms, garlands, and vines cascading from a jeweled flower border. For the 1981 San Francisco outpost of Maxwell?s Plum, Kay and Warner designed a complementary 500 square-foot Tiffany ceiling with jewels and a swirling, stylized floral theme, along with an 18x28-foot starburst-shaped glass ceiling with a matching floral-garlanded design. The three ceilings were reunited in New York in the late 1990s as Warner planned his renovation of that other New York culinary classic, the Russian Tea Room. This starburst Tiffany glass panel formerly hanging in Maxwell's Plum San Francisco and the Russian Tea Room is composed of Tiffany art glass in a radiating star configuration in red, yellow, and blue stylized flowers, and has a smaller central star around a clear blue eye." Reserve. Panel: 18' x 28', rondelle: 5.5' Estimate: $100,000 - 200,000 08/01/10