Egyptian Vase Sketch
Artist
James A. Stewart
(American, -1967)
CultureAmerican
Date1918
MediumPastel | Pencil on paper
DimensionsOverall: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Inscribed"Egyptian / Vase Made by / J. Stewart / 1918 / Opal Body / Light Yellow Cup / Brow Thred Dec / JAS [monogram]"
Credit LineGift of Robert and Gladys Koch
Object number96.4.3
Not on view
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. 80, p. 78.
