Tiffany Studios New York Favrile Glass Picture Frame
Regular price
$14,500
This exquisite Tiffany Studios frame combines shimmering Favrile glass with finely crafted gilt bronze. The iridescent favrile glass shifts in color from deep peacock blue to soft dusky purple, creating a luminous effect that enhances any photograph or artwork it holds. A striking example of Tiffany’s masterful interplay of color and craftsmanship.
Item #: T-22282
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1915
Dimensions: 8.25" height, 7.375" width, 5" depth.
Materials: Favrile Glass, Gilt Bronze
Signed: "Tiffany Furnaces 50" with monogram
Item #: T-22282
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1915
Dimensions: 8.25" height, 7.375" width, 5" depth.
Materials: Favrile Glass, Gilt Bronze
Signed: "Tiffany Furnaces 50" with monogram
Louis Comfort Tiffany's highly prized picture frames were created to celebrate a relatively new and exciting medium of the time, that of photography. Though still expensive and reserved largely for the elite, the advent of the Kodak "Brownie," in 1900, made higher quality photography more accessible then ever before, and ignited a craze for having photographs in the home.
Louis Comfort Tiffany's highly prized picture frames were created to celebrate a relatively new and exciting medium of the time, that of photography. Though still expensive and reserved largely for the elite, the advent of the Kodak "Brownie," in 1900, made higher quality photography more accessible then ever before, and ignited a craze for having photographs in the home.
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