The 1872 Colt improved breech-loading police pistol with so-called Tiffany grips embellished with the Mexican Eagle and engraved by an unknown New York artisan. Tiffany adhered to theological standards and used paint to depict the face, hands and feet of each figure, while the rest of the window is made using the innovative techniques and glass pieces singular to Tiffany. The windows are on national tour, and the exhibition is titled after the organizer, In the Company of Angels, Inc. Thought originally to have been only attributed to Tiffany Studios, cleaning and restoration revealed a signature. They ended up in the garages and basements of parishioners and later were removed to a barn at the Swedenborgian Church in West Chester, Penn., where they sat undisturbed until 2001, when they were rediscovered. Sixty-some years later, in 1964 when the church was taken by eminent domain and torn down to make way for a highway, the windows were removed and crated. They represented the Angels of the Seven Churches described in the Book of Revelation.
The windows were commissioned by another Swedenborgian church, the New Church Society in nearby Glendale, Ohio, as a gift. The exhibition “In Company of Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows” heralds seven chancel windows originally installed in 1902 in the Church of the New Jerusalem in Cincinnati, Ohio. Arms from the Robert M Lee Collection,” all of which will remain on view through May 20. Three separate Tiffany exhibits have converged at the Nevada Museum of Art: “Out of the Forest: Art Nouveau Lamps,” “In Company With Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows” and “Tiffany & Co. The windows spent more than half a century in storage until they were recently rediscovered and conserved.Ī Tiffany trifecta is running in Nevada in an improbable but glittering combination of exquisitely executed guns and glass. Seven Tiffany Studios windows depict angels representing the seven churches of the Book of Revelation.
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