EXRARE BEAUTIFUL SCARAB PAPERWEIGHT FAVRILE BLUE AURENE TIFFANY STEUBEN ESQUE

Description

EXTREMELY SOUGHT AFTER
RARELY SEEN
IRIDESCENT EGYPTIAN STYLE SCARAB BEETLE PAPERWEIGHT/ORNAMENT
BEAUTIFUL PURPLES, BLUES, GREENS, YELLOWS AND ORANGE DEPENDING ON HOW THE LIGHT CATCHES IT
SOLID HEAVY GLASS
WEIGHS NEARLY 1lb 4 ozs!!
NEARLY 5 INCHES LONG!!
CLASSIC
EGYPTIAN STYLE SCARAB SIMILAR TO THE SCARABS MADE BY TIFFANY AND CO - I HAVE INCLUDED A PHOTO OF A ORIGINAL TIFFANY LAMP WITH A SCARAB FOR COMPARISON
Glass Similar to Tiffany Favrile or Stueben Blue Aurene
Iridescent Blue Glass is Highly sought after - Indistinct Signature to Base
VERY ART NOUVEAU / ART DECO IN STYLE!
These pieces are rarely seen and rarely come up for sale
Absolutely fantastic!!
Usual grinding in base where it would have been removed from the manufacturing process and would have had the excess glass pontil ground - as can be seen in the photo's - Makers mark indecipherable - Absolutely excellent condition
Tiffany was contemporary with Liberty and Company - Makers of the Cymric and Tudric Lines in England, Steuben, Loetz, and other glass makers - as well as working at the same time as the book and poster
illustrators
, Alphonse Mucha, Gustave Dore, Jessie M. King, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Ricketts, Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, Edward Burne Jones, William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, James McNeill Whistler, Arthur Mackmurdo, Dalziel Brothers, Birket Foster, Frederick Sandys, Will Bradley, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman, Paul Woodroffe, W.B. MacDougall, James Guthrie, Reginald Knowles, Charles Rene Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art, Talwin Morris, Katherine Cameron, C.R. Ashbee, Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, Edmund Sullivan, Anning Bell, Claud Lovat Fraser, John Austen, Harry Clarke, Eric Gill and many, many others!!!
LOOK AT MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR PIECES OF TIFFANY, CLARICE CLIFF,  AND ALSO QUALITY ART NOUVEAU, ARTS AND CRAFTS AND ART DECO ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
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