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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Seal Handle
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Seal Handle

Manufacturer Louis Comfort Tiffany (American,1848-1933)
CultureAmerican
MediumGlass
DimensionsOverall: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Base: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
InscribedNo mark.
Credit LineGift of Jean Outland Chrysler
Object number71.6249
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-7, Case 41
DescriptionSeal handle. Scarab. Blue iridescent glass molded in the shape of three "beetles" in a vertical position with ribbed backs forming the top. Just like gold one, 71.6248. Flat black bottom for initials.

Published ReferencesPaul E. Doros, _The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_ (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1978) 79, #120.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
ca. 1914
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
ca. 1900
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
1915
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
1906
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
ca. 1900
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Amalric Walter
New photography by Ed Pollard, digital slr-2009.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
ca. 1899-1900
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2021.
ca. 1890