Louis Comfort Tiffany Furniture

Tiffany Studios Tall Favrile Ribbed and Applied Decorated Vase Ribbed with applied favrile glass strands encircling and forming button snail corbochons on the body. New York, USA, ...

Amber colored favrile art glass sherbet compote made by Tiffany Studios, circa 1905; signed "L.C.T." and numbered "5037 B" (see image). It is in excellent and all original condition ...

A colorful iridescent favrile glass vase in beautiful tulip form by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Signed on the base. This LC Tiffany Favrile vase has a timeless design and coordinates well...

This elegant iridescent gold Favrile art glass vase was made by Tiffany Studios operating under the direction of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany Favrile Glass was first offered to the public in 1893 and this hand-blown piece dates to the mid-to-late 1920s. The vase has a warm golden glow and was crafted with a wide domed pedestal base that gives way to a ribbed body. The body flares slightly as it rises and transitions dramatically to a wide shallow neck that terminates in a scalloped-edge rim. As seen in the accompanying photographs, the well-balanced piece is nicely proportioned and displays beautifully. The vase stands 8.375" as measured to its tallest point and is 3.75" across the rim. The foot is 4" from edge to edge. The piece is free of chips and cracks and is presented in original condition with no restoration or repair. The underside bears a typical Tiffany Studios late production compound number signature reading L. C. Tiffany Inc. - Favrile and includes shape number 1548 followed by serial number 3164 N. This LC Tiffany Favrile vase...

An impressive early 20th Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with green hearts shining through an attractive golden iridescence, signed L C Tiffany Favrile and numbered to base. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 23 cm Condition: Very Good Condition Circa: 1905 Materials: Iridescent Coloured Glass SKU: 6667 ABOUT Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork. Early Life He was born in New York City, New York, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866-67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868-69. Belly’s landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany. Career Louis started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. The business was short-lived, lasting only four years. The group made designs for wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. He later opened his own glass factory in Corona, New York, determined to provide designs that improved the quality of contemporary glass. Tiffany’s leadership and talent, as well as his father’s money and connections, led this business to thrive. In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. He worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding an opalescent floor-to-ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. The Tiffany screen and other Victorian additions were all removed in the Roosevelt renovations of 1902, which restored the White House interiors to Federal style in keeping with its architecture. A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In the beginning of his career, he used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed the “copper foil” technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany’s chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s. In 1889 at the Paris Exposition, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrilein conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons He trademarked Favrile (from the old French word for handmade) on November 13, 1894. He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. His first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany...

Lime green colored favrile art glass fruit bowl made by Tiffany Studios, circa 1910; marked on the underneath "Tiffany Registered Trademark Favrile Glass" (see image). It is in very ...

A very rare and important straw opal -pastel Louis Comfort Tiffany Favrile large wine glass. Beautifully signed 'L. C. Tiffany Favrile' -on the base at the tip of the stem See pictur...

Two cups of intricate design and six cordials glasses make up this set by Tiffany Studios New York. All in golden hues, the receptacles are imbued with radiant flashes of iridescen...

Original signed Louis Comfort Tiffany Trumpet vase 6292 art glass vase in great condition mid 20th century. This is a gorgeous Art Nouveau L.C. Ti...

Designed to celebrate the opening of the Engineers Club in New York City in 1907, by Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany and Company, the firm founded by his father, this rare and lustrous pair of bronze goblets demonstrate the artistry and gorgeous workmanship of Tiffany and his bronze foundry. The construction of the Club was largely funded by Andrew Carnegie...

A pair of gilt bronze “Zodiac” desk blotter ends by Tiffany Studios New York. The blotter ends each feature intricate pseudo-Celtic patterning intersperse...

This set of four art glass open salt cellars were made by the iconic American glass maker Louis Comfort Tiffany in circa 1890 in the period Victorian ...

A wonderful L.C.T. gold Favrile champagne or sorbet glass cup with engraved grape clusters and wine leaves. Engraved signature: “L.C.T. Favrile” Measures: Height 3.4 Inches, diamet...

Two premier quality Tiffany Favrile Glass Candle Shades in iridescent gold with a soft honey comb design. Both shades are signed L.C.T. and are in perfect condition. Shades measure...

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass tall bud vase on gilt bronze enameled stand By Louis Comfort Tiffany Furnaces Inc. (signed to the undersi...

Tiffany Favril and pulled feather glass vase, circ 1900's. Retains original paper label. Marked with "favril" and production number. "

A gorgeous pair of Arts Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass candlesticks By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany Studios (each signed to the underside) USA...

Large Tiffany Studios Gold Favrile trumpet vase, 1908 Marks: 32565C L.C. Tiffany-Favrile, (applied paper label) Dimensions: Height: 16.5 inches (41....

Beautiful early 20th century Tiffany Favrile glass boudoir lamp. The lamp features a conical glass shade and baluster base with gold/amber "Arabian" pattern discoloration and applied...

Antique Monumental Tiffany Style 2 Section Good Sheppard Chicago Church Salvaged Stained Glass Window Circa Early 1900’s Dimensions 11 Ft x 14 Ft

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period Favrile iridescent art glass bowl with intaglio grapevine motif By Louis Comfort Tiffany for Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside)...

Fabulous footed L C Tiffany Favrile vase in iridised gold, ribbed, double waisted and with wavy top -in a good size-7 inches tall. Fully signed wi...

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period gilt bronze footed center dish or tazza with enameled jewel decoration By Louis Comfort Tiffany Furnaces Inc. (signed to the underside) ...

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period gilt bronze footed centerpiece bowl with handles By Louis Comfort Tiffany Furnaces Inc. (signed to the underside) New York, USA, 1920s ...

A stunning Tiffany Studios New York Favrile glass vase, exhibiting a graceful trumpet form with a beautifully executed pulled feather design in shimmering tones of gold, green, and s...

A rare opal Louis Comfort Tiffany, signed, two handled miniature vase. Signed '27 - 4925N L C Tiffany - Favrile' around the base dating it to just after WW1 -alas the signature is v...

Pair of Louis Comfort Tiffany & Co. Clear Crystal Candlesticks. A gorgeous pair of crystal candlesticks By Tiffany & Co., "Louis Comfort Tiffany Collection" New York, USA, 1992. Meas...

Tall Tiffany Studios wheel-carved Favrile glass leaves vase, 1918 Art Nouveau. Marks: 7062M L.C. Tiffany Inc. Favrile Measures: Height: 11.85 inches (29.8 cm) Diameter: 3.5 Inc...

A (2) two piece grouping of LCT Tiffany Studios favrile art glass including a ruffled dish and underplate. Each piece has a onion skin style appearance and wonderful iridescent color...

A pair of premier quality Tiffany Favrile Glass Candle Shades in rich iridescent gold fabric fold design. Both shades are signed L.C.T. and are in perfect condition. Shades measure...

Circa 1905-10, American, by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Offered is a set of ten Louis Comfort Tiffany hand-blown favrile water goblets with a masterfully cut g...

Louis Comfort Tiffany iridescent and gold favrile glass goblet. Paper label on base. Dimensions: 9.75"H x 3.5"D.