Favrile Glass & Enamel, American Indian Basketry & Relics; Antique Oriental Rugs; Chinese And Japanese Furniture & Objects Of Art: Paintings, Antiquities, Decorations, Belonging to The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and Removed from Laurelton Hall, Cold Spring Harbor, L.I.
New York: Parke-Bernet, 1946, Sept. 24-28. Softbound. Brown printed wraps. Appx. 210 pages, profusely illustrated in bw. Wraps are chipped and loose, spine torn. Inside is VG. There are three labels on the front cover and a small perforation stamp from a previous owner at the base of the title-page. Item #137423
A most rare and desireable catalogue for this monumental auction. In 1905, Louis Comfort Tiffany moved into his 84 room country estate, Laurelton Hall, Cold Spring Harbor(Oyster Bay), Long Island. This palatial home housed his extensive collection of Favrile glass, Oriental art, and American Indian basketry. A little more than a decade after his death, Tiffany's notable collections were liquidated. There were 50 lots of Favrile glass and Favrile pottery pieces in this auction. 1147 lots were sold over the course of this 5-day auction. The house itself, long an artists retreat, was emptied by this auction because of financial woes in the Tiffany Estate (he died in 1933), and the 86-room house burned to the ground in 1957. Many of the items in this catalogue wound up at the Morris Museum in Winter Park, Florida because Hugh and Jeannette McKean, early admirers of Tiffany, purchased what they could for their collection at the Morse.
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