Collection Highlights
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman
ca. 1700-1725
1952.80
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fish Paperweight
Title
Fish Paperweight
Object name
Paperweight
Date
1904-1938
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 6 1/4 x x x 5 in. ( 15.9 x 0 x 0 x 12.7 cm )
Description
Doorstop-size pale green glass paperweight; footed ovoid, with internal motif of two diaphanous, three-dimensional, lettuce green fish swimming among streamers of faintly iridescent aquatic material.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair
Object Number
1965.296
Marks
incised: on base: "1984H L.C. Tiffany. Favrile."
Gallery Label
Only about a dozen glass paperweights by Tiffany are known (per Paul Hollister, "Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society," p. 137).
Bibliography
Gray, Nina. "The work of Tiffany Studios." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 194-201.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
