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Vase with Peacock Feather Plique-a-Jour Mount

Vase with Peacock Feather Plique-a-Jour Mount

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Favrile Kerosene Lamp with Morning Glory Shade and Peacock Feather Base
 
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Object Name: 
Vase with Peacock Feather Plique-a-Jour Mount
Department
American
Category
Modern
Maker(s)
Tiffany, Louis Comfort ((American, 1848-1933)), Artist
Tiffany Studios, Studio
Feuillatre, Eugene ((French, 1870-1916)), Enameler
Colonna, Edouard ((German, naturalized American and active in Paris, 1862-1948)), Mount Maker
Place Made: 
United States, Corona, NY
Date: 
about 1897-1899
Dimensions: 
overall H: 14.5 cm, W: 7.9 cm, Diam (max): 7.5 cm
Accession Number: 
2006.4.161
Location: 
On Display
Description
Translucent reddish glass with applied iridescence; silver gilt mount with plique-a-jour enamel and set rubies. Small vase with bulbous lower body and long, thin, cylindrical neck. The body is decorated overall with golden iridescence in peacock trailings. A silver gilt mount encircles the long neck with ear-shaped plique-a-jour enamel decoration at the top and six rubies inset in various locations on the mount.
Label Text
The metal mount for this vase was made by Edouard Colonna (German, 1862–1948), who produced several mounts for Tiffany vases although this is the only one known to have survived. The enameling was done by Eugène Feuillatre (French, 1870–1916).
Inscription
L.C.T. F2264 Engraved. On underside of vase.
Provenance
Lesieutre, Alain (Paris, France), Former Collection to
Macklowe Gallery (New York, NY), Former Collection to
Pollard, Richard (NY), Former Collection to
Sotheby's, Source to

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Exhibitions

Louis C. Tiffany, Master of Modern Art Glass
Venue(s)
Musee du Luxembourg 2009-09-16 through 2010-01-17
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal 2010-02-11 through 2010-05-02
Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia 2010-06-05 through 2010-08-15
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Venue(s)
Grafton Galleries
L’Art Nouveau Gallery, Siegfried Bing, Paris, at the Grafton Galleries, London
 

Publications

Reassembled Tiffany (2009-10-30) illustrated, p. C24;
Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01) illustrated, p. 8; BIB# 109342
Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour (2009) illustrated, pp.144-145; BIB# 112877
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Couleurs et lumiere au musee du Luxembourg (2009) illustrated, p. 9, left;
Artistic Luxury: Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique (2008) illustrated, p. 287; BIB# 106921
Journal of Glass Studies, 49 (2007) illustrated, Cover, frontispiece;
The Gather (2007) illustrated, p. 11;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2006 (2005) illustrated, Cover; pp. [1], 11;
Louis C. Tiffany : The Garden Museum Collection (2004) p. 249; BIB# 81365
The Paris Salons 1895-1914 (1994) p. 447; BIB# 26747
Tiffany at Auction (1981) p. 41, pl. 113; BIB# 21975
Art Nouveau & Art Deco. (Christie's) (1979-05-24) illustrated, p. 41, #113; BIB# 6650

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