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TIFFANY FAVRILE STEMWARE PINK OPALESCENT CHAMPAGNE 1901
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Tiffany Favrile Ribbed Glass Stemware, circa 1901, champagne glass height 7 inches diameter top 3.5 inches Pink and sea green ribbed with amazing highlights. Lead glass, moonstone shading to opalescent pink; pattern-molded and free-blown; tall, slender cylindrical bowl spreading at plain rim and having decoration of opaque white pink threads along each wide-spaced vertical ribs. Clear sea green ribbed steam round and teardrop shapes. In excellent condition with no damage repairs or factory flaws.
Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass . He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau [1 ] and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler , and Samuel Colman . Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels and metalwork. [2 ] Tiffany's painting depicting a market outside of the walls of Tangier The Entrance Hall of the White House in 1882, showing the newly installed Tiffany glass screens. [edit ]Early lifeTiffany was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany , founder of Tiffany and Company ; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy [3 ] in Chester, Pennsylvania , and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey . His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness and Samuel Colman in New York City and Léon Bailly in Paris . [edit ]CareerTiffany started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler , Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists . Tiffany's leadership and talent, as well as by his father's money and connections, led this business to thrive. In 1881 the Tiffany did interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut , which still remains, but the new firm's most notable work came in 1882, when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated, and commissioned Tiffany, which had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm's interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. Tiffany worked on the East Room , the Blue Room , the Red Room , the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns, and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding the opalescent floor to ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. [4 ][ 5] [6 ]A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885, when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm later that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated on December 1, 1885, and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios . Close-up of a Tiffany Studios "Venetian" desk lamp, c.1910-1920In the beginning of his career, Tiffany used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in glass paint or enamels on colorless glass that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for several hundred years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivat... 
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