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TIFFANY STUDIOS
'Flying Fish' Mosaic Inkstand, circa 1905
Favrile glass, mosaic glass, patinated bronze
3 1/2 x 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (9 x 17.2 x 17.2 cm.)
inkstand impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS
glass liner engraved THE DAVIS Pat. Mar. 19, Oct. 22, 89, Feb. 14 '93
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 March 1996, lot 381.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, p. 185 (for a period photograph of this model in the workroom of Clara Driscoll with Driscoll and Joseph Briggs, 1901).
T. Horiuchi, A Selection of 300 works from the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, Tokyo, 2001, p. 168, no. 247.
J. Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, p. 193.
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, p. 368.
M. Eidelberg, N. Gray, and M. K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, exh. cat., The New York Historical Society, New York, 2007, pp. 110-111, fig. 66 (for the above period photograph).
R. M. Pepall, Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 2009, p. 168.
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, p. 474, no. 1911.
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