Louse Comfort Tiffany Furnaces Bronze Tray with Red Favrile Enamel This is a Louis Comfort Tiffany Furnaces circular bronze tray featuring a wide, relief-decorated rim set with twenty-four vibrant red glass cabochons. Signed on back.

Size: 8 1/4 in.

“Louis Comfort Tiffany Furnaces” was the specialized glassmaking workshops and furnaces operated by Louis Comfort Tiffany as part of Tiffany Studios, rather than a separate company. Tiffany was deeply involved in developing new types of artistic glass—especially opalescent and Favrile glass—and these furnaces were where raw materials were melted, colored, and manipulated into the richly textured sheets and forms used in his lamps and windows. Unlike many designers of his time, Tiffany controlled both the artistic and manufacturing processes, allowing for experimentation with color, layering, and surface effects. References to “Tiffany furnaces” today usually highlight this hands-on innovation in glass production, which played a major role in defining the distinctive look and enduring value of his work.

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