Bidspirit auction | Tiffany Studios LCT Pottery 'Lion'

Tiffany Studios LCT Pottery 'Lion' Vase - Signed on the bottom. The pot features a lion motif.    Dimensions: 6 1/2” Tall x 8” Diameter    Condition: There is a crack to the bottom of the pot. The glazing makes the design slightly illegible.    About: Favrile pottery is the least known thing Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) made, and among the rarest. He began experimenting with ceramics at his Corona, Queens works around 1898, spurred by the art pottery he saw at the 1900 Paris Exposition; he showed three examples publicly for the first time at the 1904 St. Louis world's fair, sold it only from 1905, and had all but ended production by 1914 — a total output estimated at roughly two thousand pieces. Each was moulded from high-fired semi-porcelain, then hand-carved and trimmed before firing under glazes Tiffany developed himself, typically mossy greens and old-ivory mattes over relief-modelled plant forms. All are incised with the LCT monogram.