Estimated Price:

   £   

Realised Price:

   £   

What is this symbol? This symbol indicates that this auction hose has verified this price result.

Log in or subscribe to view price data

AN IMPORTANT AND RARE "PARROT" MOSAIC PANEL

measurements note
55 3/4 x 14 1/8 in. (141.6 x 35.8 cm)

ca. 1910

mosaic favrile glass, mounted in the original wood frame with foliate brass mounts

PROVENANCE

Minna Rosenblatt, New York
Barry W. Toombs, New York
Property of the United States of America
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, March 24, 1984, lot 162

LITERATURE

Alastair Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 78 (for an illustration of the companion to this mosaic panel)
Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 172, 173 and 185 (for the example cited above)

NOTE

This panel is one of a pair once owned by Minna Rosenblatt. The companion piece, whose depiction of two parrots in flight differs slightly in its composition, was acquired from Rosenblatt by Aaron Frank, sold as part of his Estate at Sotheby Park Bernet in March 1979, and then sold by a New Jersey collector at Christie's in December 2001. It is now in the collection of the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum in Matsue, Japan.

The present panel was acquired from Rosenblatt by Barry Toombs, whose property was seized by the United States and sold at Sotheby Park Bernet in 1984. At the time of that sale, a printing error resulted in it being incorrectly illustrated and catalogued as its companion panel, which has been the cause for some confusion amongst collectors in recent years.