"Mosaic Sign for, Front of Building, W.W. Wattles & Sons, Pittsburgh, PA"

1909

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 693

Tiffany Studios created fashionable Favrile-glass mosaic storefront signs for retail establishments such as W.W. Wattles and Sons, a Pittsburgh jeweler and importer established in 1859. Like Tiffany and Company itself, William W. Wattles's firm sold American and European fancy goods such as clocks, watches, bronzes, porcelain, and silver in addition to jewelry. This may have been one of two or more designs proposed for the store, as indicated by the encircled capital B inscribed on the drawing.

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Title: "Mosaic Sign for, Front of Building, W.W. Wattles & Sons, Pittsburgh, PA"
Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
Designer: Unidentified designer
Maker: Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
Date: 1909
Geography: Made in New York, United States; Country of Origin United States
Culture: American
Medium: Transparent, and opaque watercolor, and graphite on paper
Dimensions: 29 15/16 × 21 1/16 in. (76 × 53.5 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
Object Number: 67.654.38
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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