Tiffany Chapel Altar Cross - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Sale - Tiffany Chapel Altar Cross

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A master of many media, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) was one of America's most noted decorative artists at the turn of the century. Son of the founder of the silver and jewelry firm Tiffany and Company of New York, Louis Tiffany began his career as a painter but moved quickly to interior design and decorative media. In addition to leaded-glass windows and lighting fixtures, Tiffany Studios produced exceptional works in wood, bronze, and enamel, as well as jewelry, blown glass, pottery, furniture, and textiles. At the World’s Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, Tiffany and Company occupied an exhibition space, but Louis Tiffany himself also received an area to display his own works of art. Of these, the most ambitious was the chapel, which has been reinstalled in The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. A sizable structure, approximately 39 feet long, 23 feet wide, and rising to a height of 24 feet, the chapel displayed the great breadth of works that Tiffany and his company could create. Set upon the uppermost retable (or, raised step) on the chapel’s marble and mosaic altar was a gold and jeweled encrusted cross, now lost. The Museum’s Tiffany Chapel Altar Cross is based on the replacement by Louis Tiffany of the original cross. Produced in cooperation with the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida.

24K gold plate, lightly antiqued, with citrines and hand-applied enamel. Cross length 3 1/8 in., with a 36 in. black satin cord.

Original price $135

Tiffany Chapel Altar Cross
09-068008
Member Price: $91.13 each
Non-Member Price: $101.25 each

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