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Rare Tiffany Window Up For Auction

A Tiffany Studios stained-glass window created around the turn of the 20th century for a church in Duluth, Minnesota is up for auction on December 10. The window is the top lot among a variety of stained glass windows, Tiffany lamps and other pieces being sold at Morphy Auctions' sale of fine and decorative art.

The Cedar Tree window measures 72 inches by 43 inches. The garden scene includes several other trees, as well as ivy, vines and red roses in full bloom around the base and up the sides of two massive columns. A stone path meanders toward an urn-topped wall. The overall effect is painterly, a tranquil scene rendered in delicately colored glass rather than oil paints.

"This window has been in the consignor's private collection for more than 40 years, so it's fresh to the market and will surprise many of today's collectors of Tiffany art glass," said Morphy Auctions' CEO, Dan Morphy. The window is unsigned but in the 1980s, Dr. Egon Neustadt, an expert on Tiffany, confirmed its authenticity. The late Dr. Neustadt's letter of authenticity accompanies the window, which is estimated to sell for $150,000-$250,000.

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Tiffany Chair Crowns Decor Auction

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Auctions

New Orleans Auction Galleries is holding its next auction on September 11 and 12 with bidding through Live Auctioneers. The two-day sale features over 900 lots of furniture, fine arts, Asian porcelain, jewelry, silver, glass, books and more. Among the highlights is the important L. C. Tiffany Walnut Roundabout Chair shown at right. Louis Comfort Tiffany was famous for his work in glass but he also designed textiles, furnishings, basically anything for the interior of a home.

The chair, which is dated to circa 1879-1890, is beautifully ornamented. Each stile is capped by a finely carved finial depicting a bear grasping a pumpkin, each finial differently ornamented, centered by an oak- and acorn-carved panel, the arms on bobbin-turned supports, the seat rail adorned with brass studs, raised on square legs with double-knuckled paw feet on glass balls. This striking chair is part of a very small group of seating furniture, armchairs and sidechairs in this form have occasionally surfaced.

The auction listing says that Louis Comfort Tiffany was involved in several furniture and decorating enterprises from 1879 through the following decade, including Associated Artists, active 1879-1883, Tiffany and DeForest, active 1880-1883, and L. C. Tiffany and Company which was created to manufacture furniture and went bankrupt in 1885 while executing the Lyceum Theatre commission in New York. This piece is estimated to sell for $30,000 to $50,000.

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louis comfort tiffany

Rare Tiffany Window Up For Auction

Tiffany Chair Crowns Decor Auction

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