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Lot 128:
Description
Keywords: NO RESERVE, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Leaded Glass, Stained Glass, Figural Window, Tiffany Studios, Tiffany Window, Art Glass, Sarah Bernhardt, Dancing For the King of Prussia, Art Nouveau, Classical Figure, Architectural Panel, Decorative Arts, American Glass, Framed Window Panel, Leaded Window
Summary:
Tiffany Studios (unsigned and attributed) The Sarah Bernhardt “Dancing for the King of Prussia” leaded stained glass window panel depicting a dancing female figure in a columned garden setting with flowering plants and geometric tiled floor.
Tiffany Window Provenance/History
The Sarah Bernhardt “Dancing for the King of Prussia” window was ordered from Tiffany Decorating Co. between 1886 and 1888 by the Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.The window was installed in a show model upright grand piano they had manufactured to advertise and promote the sale of their pianos to the public. Sarah Bernhardt was an actress and a dancer who gained great fame and celebrity throughout Europe and the United States from 1880 to 1920. The Baldwin piano company used her popularity with the public to help them sell their pianos.
In the late 1920s, James Allen acquired the piano for his wife, who was a piano teacher. The main reason he bought this piano was the pretty window that was installed in it. But shortly after the piano was acquired, the window panel was removed from the piano because it rattled and vibrated when the piano was played. He then installed the window into an art frame, and built a light box on the rear of the window with three old style light bulbs to illuminate it.
Chuck Angelucci; by descent/inheritance through the Allen family; acquired by the present owner in 1989 from Thomas Allen of Pensacola, Florida, son of Thomas Allen, who died in 1980 and whose estate included the window.
Measurement: Glass Panel: 20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.), Frame: 26 x 36 x 4 3/4 in. (66 x 91.4 x 12.1 cm.) approx
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