“It’s not something for everyone, but in terms of its moment it’s a star.”
Curator Beth Wees on the late-nineteenth-century Adams Vase manufactured by Tiffany & Co..
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Beth Carver Wees
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Beth Carver Wees
Curator
Curator
Photography by Oi-Cheong Lee
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Designer Designed by Paulding Farnham
Manufacturer Manufactured by Tiffany & Co.
1893–95
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