Tiffany Studios New York Wood and Favrile Glass Humidor

A Tiffany Studios New York wood and Favrile glass humidor carved by Joseph Briggs. Here a segment of a tree branch has been transformed into a domestic appliance, one for use in an Edwardian gentleman’s library, “den,” or smoking room. The removal of the wood’s burls and of their replacement with conforming pieces of iridescent Cypriote glass provides an eye-catching effect.Provenance: Joseph Briggs; Briggs family, by descent; Howard and Paula Ellman; The Garden Museum Colleciton, Matsue, Japan.This humidor is pictured in: Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, by Alastair Duncan, Woodbridge: Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2004, p. 356.