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Tiffany Studios New York "Grapevine" Picture Frame
$6,500
A Tiffany Studios New York green glass and bronze “Grapevine” frame, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, features a mottled white and green glass, overlaid with a patinated bronze cast in an openwork motif of tangled grapevines and grapevine leaves. The entire composition is completed by the charming addition of a beaded border.
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Item #: T-21487
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 7.375" height, 6.375" width
Materials: Favrile Glass, Bronze
Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 948
Literature: A similar picture frame is pictured in: Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An illustrated reference to over 2000 models, by Alastair Duncan, Woodbridge: Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1988, p. 469, plate 1847.
It is important to remember when considering the incredible care that Louis Comfort Tiffany employed when creating the composition and technical aspect of this picture frame was the excitement around early photography that was culminating at the time. 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.