Marcel Goupy
Enameled Vase

French, circa 1925
Height: 9 ¾ inches (24.8 cm)
Diameter: 7 ¼ inches (18.4 cm)

This enameled glass vase by French Art Nouveau master Marcel Goupy features a horizontal frieze depicting a series of graceful gazelles in enamel, with gold highlights which coordinate with the gilded metal mount on the rim of the vase.

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Fred Rothenbusch for
Rookwood Pottery
Scenic Vellum Harbor Vase

American, 1910
Height: 9 inches (22.86 cm)

An unusual vase depicting a harbor scene by Rookwood artist Fred Rothenbusch, depicting a series of boats at work at a twilight in London harbor (the silhouette of the Tower Bridge can be seen behind the largest grouping of boats). Around the turn of the twentieth century, Rookwood began to treat the surface of the vase slightly differently, as in this piece. Instead of painting a scene across the entire surface, the vase was divided into sections: in this example, the upper and lower parts of the vase, in a soft blue glaze, are bisected by a horizontal band containing the entirety the harbor scene, framed by soft blue lines at the top and bottom.

Rothenbusch was known for his work depicting hazy landscapes in the Vellum glaze; a nephew of Albert Valentien, one of Rookwood’s most prolific artists, he was employed by the firm for over thirty years from 1896 to 1931.

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Tiffany Studios
Candlestick for the Rowfant Club

American, circa 1903
Height: 8 ¾ inches (22.2 cm)
Width: 4 ¼ inches (10.8 cm)
Depth: 5 ⅛ inches (12.7 cm)

This charming bronze candlestick was designed by Ernest Thompson Seton for the Rowfant Club, an exclusive bibliophilic society established in Cleveland, Ohio in 1892. The candlestick was originally issued in an edition of 100 bronze copies cast by Tiffany Studios in Corona, Queens in 1903.

The candlestick takes the form of a groundhog, expertly modeled by J.L. Clark of the American Museum of Natural History, sitting on an open book, raising up a candle in homage to the club's motto ("Light Seeking Light Doth Light of Light beguile").

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Tiffany Favrile Glass
Flower Form Vase

American, circa 1900-03
Height: 18 inches (45.72 cm)

This early Tiffany Flower Form Vase stands elegantly at a monumental height of 18 inches.

The elongated flower cup, in a pale pink glass decorated with striated green leaves, rises from a thin stem of striated green glass. The stem rests on a domed foot formed by rich gold iridescent glass with subtle vertical ribbing.

This original piece of early Tiffany Favrile Glass is signed on the underside.

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Tiffany Studios
Louis XVI Frame

American, circa 1910
Height: 5 ½ inches (13.97 cm)
Width: 6 inches (15.24 cm)

Part of the Louis XVI desk set produced by Tiffany Studios in the early 20th century, this horizontal frame was originally intended to be used as a Calendar Frame.

The gilt bronze surface features acid etched finish along the flat planes, in addition to raised decoration of swags, laurels, and ribbons.

This original piece of Tiffany Studios metalwork is stamped on the reverse.

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Tiffany Studios
Candlestick with Favrile Glass Candle Cup

American, circa 1904
Height: 9 ⅞ inches (25.082 cm)

A rare example of a Tiffany Tripod Candlestick which features a blown gold iridescent Favrile Glass Candle Cup. This candlestick model was generally produced entirely in bronze. This unusual example, in the original statuary bronze patina, retains both its original matching bobeche and the snuffer which hangs from a hook suspended between the three legs.

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Tiffany Favrile Glass
Early Cabinet Vase

American, circa 1897-99
Height: 3 ¾ inches
Diameter: 3 ¼ inches

This unusual early Tiffany Favrile Glass cabinet vase utilizes blown glass to recreate a technique used by Louis Comfort Tiffany in designs for candlesticks and Tiffany lamp bases produced at his nearby metal foundry: hot glass was blown through an elaborate openwork metal armature to produce a sculptural pillowed effect. In this experimental piece, silvery glass was applied to the surface of the bright green vase, forming Art Nouveau style strap work which seems to constrain the glass beneath.

Related example illustrated:
Martin Eidelberg, “Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty,” (Lillian Nassau LLC, New York: 2007), p. 36 fig. 41.

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Tiffany Studios
Electrified Candelabrum

American, circa 1906
Height: 9 inches (22.86 cm)

A rare electrified candlestick by Tiffany Studios, the bronze footed candelabrum base rising to two "candle cups" which hold two Tiffany Favrile Glass "Tulip" Shades, the milky-white opalescent ground decorated with striated green feathers framed by an iridescent border which rise up from base of the shade.

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