New (Desktop) Wallpaper

Jan 02, 2014 15:09

New year, new Tiffany stained glass image to decorate my desktop. This wee treasure sold for $177,000.


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buymeaclue January 2 2014, 12:36:20 UTC
Oh, that's pretty!

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thirzajane January 2 2014, 17:06:11 UTC
And interesting, too! Snipped from the auctioneers catalogue when it was sold:

"The inclusion of magnolia blossoms within the composition allowed
Tiffany to include a selection of his drapery glass, which he had developed
initially to portray the folds in the vestments in his figural windows, an
inevitable corollary of his rejection of painted glass. The glass, while still
molten, was thrown on to a marver and rolled into a disk. The glassmaker,
clad in thick asbestos gloves and armed with tongs, then manipulated the
glass mass, as one would pastry dough, by taking hold of it from both ends
and pulling and twisting till it fell into folds. Where necessary, pliers were
used to form the corrugations. In this window, the deep crevices and undulations
in the glass capture precisely those of the magnolia petal."

Ref: http://www.michaans.com/pdf/catalogs/auccat_111712_01_web.pdf p. 112

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