Rare 'Turtle-Back Tile Moorish' Chandelier, circa 1895

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Rare 'Turtle-Back Tile Moorish' Chandelier, circa 1895
Favrile glass, leaded glass, patinated bronze
13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm.) high, 24 1/2 in. (62.3 cm.) diameter, 29 in. (73.7 cm.) drop

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 December 1999, lot 454.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Literature

A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, p. 181, pl. 479-481 (for related examples).
D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, New York, 2013, pp. 144-145, no. 44.
K. A. Conway and L. R. Parrot, Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, 2017, pp. 117, fig. 4.6 (for a photograph of the interior of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Troy); 155, fig. 5.3 (for a related example in the interior of St. Hubert’s Chapel, Kinnelon, New Jersey).
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, p. 308, no. 1214 (present lot illustrated).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

Related examples of this chandelier can be found in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy, New York and Willard Memorial Chapel in Auburn, New York, both of which include chandeliers with the same central band design in reverse.

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