New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Stick Vase Sketch

Artist James A. Stewart (American, -1967)

CultureAmerican

Date1926

MediumPastel | Pencil on paper

DimensionsOverall: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

Inscribed"Stick Vase / Made / by / J. A. Stewart / Green Cup for Leaves / Oroge Body Black Foot / 1926"

Credit LineGift of Robert and Gladys Koch

Object number96.4.28

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DescriptionFrom a collection of 41 color sketches by a former Tiffany gaffer. Twenty-one of the images are contained in a spiral-bound artist's sketch pad, and the remaining twenty sketches are on individual sheets of paper. All but two are executed in pencil and oil pastel; one is in tempera paint and the other in oil paint.

Published ReferencesRobert Koch, LOUIS C. TIFFANY'S GLASS-BRONZE-LAMPS: A COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971), fig. 92, p. 82.