Tiffany Window Shatters Records as Most Expensive Ever Sold
The sale of the stained-glass piece has cemented the 20th-century designer’s place in the ‘pantheon of iconic artists.’
An impressionistic stained-glass window by Tiffany Studios sold at Sotheby’s New York on November 18 for $12.4 million, making it the most valuable work made by the early 20th-century decorative arts company ever sold at auction.
Commissioned in 1913 as a window for the First Baptist Church in Canton, Ohio, the Danner Memorial Window (named for John and Terressa Danner, who were founding members of the church) easily passed its presale estimate of $5 million and $7 million. The previous record for a Tiffany Studios work was the $3.7 million paid for a dandelion lamp at Rago Auctions in 2021.