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Tiffany
and Co. is world famous for their jewelry. Louis designed many expensive
pieces using his father’s store of precious stones. His pieces were unsigned,
marked Tiffany and Co. like all the others, making verification difficult.
He
favored American gemstones, buying most of the output of the Montana sapphire
mines, using especially the fine, clear cornflower blue stones from the
Yogo Gulch mine, the finest small sapphires the world has ever produced.
He also used tourmaline from Maine and California. When kunzite, a new
gem material, was discovered in California it was identified by Tiffany’s
gemologist, George Frederick Kunz and named for him.
Tiffany
jewelry featured semi-abstract designs from natural forms and showed the
influence of enamel work from the Orient, Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance.
Faceted gemstones were combined with glowing enamel, opals, shell, coral
or amber; opaque stones such as lapis, onyx and malachite were also used.
Even
more of Tiffany’s income came from stained glass windows. Church windows,
memorials and mausoleums were produced on such a large scale that Tiffany
finally purchased his own granite quarry in Massachusetts. Jewel-medallion
windows were chosen by Stanford White for his Madison Square Presbyterian
Church. These windows were later installed in the Mission Inn in Riverside,
California.
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