LOT DETAILS

Materials:

leaded and plated favrile glass

Size Notes:

dimensions of each lancet panel (excluding upper tracery and lower inscription panels); overall height (including upper tracery and lower inscription panels): 228.6 cm

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated TIFFANY STUDIOS N.Y. 1914 in enamel

Literature:

Alastair Duncan, Martin Eidelberg and Neil Harris,. Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany , London, 1989, pp. 131 (for a related window for the Central Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island), 139 (for a related window commissioned by Andrew Carnegie). Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, . Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum , New York, 1998, pp. 42-43 (for a related window in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection). Proceeds from the sale of the present lot will benefit the outreach missions of the First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, Erie, PA

Provenance:

Commissioned directly from Tiffany Studios by Mrs. Benjamin Whitman on behalf of Park Presbyterian Church (now First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant) in memory of her late husband and church parishioners, Mr. and Mrs. Teele, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1914.