The Twin Roses of St. Paul's: A rare market appearance for a famed window design

The Twin Roses of St. Paul's:
A rare market appearance for a famed window design
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), son of Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902), began experimenting with glass in the 1870s, and by the 1890s his firm Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (later renamed Tiffany Studios) was one of the most influential and widely-acclaimed designers of interiors and decorative arts, commissioned to produce interiors for public and civic projects as well as the homes of the Gilded Age's elite. Along with John La Farge (1835-1910), Tiffany created a "renaissance in stained glass." Working with patents for opalescent glass alongside colored, plated, textured, flashed, etched, and enameled glass, artists at Tiffany's glass studio in Corona, Queens, New York, created masterworks of leaded glass windows, lighting, and free-blown vases and decorative objects.
New sources of wealth in America following the Civil War coupled with socio-religious factors that saw the creation of new or refurbished religious edifices in the modern taste. Set high in the chapel of St. Paul’s Presbyterian, these brightly colored roses are illustrative of the aesthetic and spiritual impact Tiffany’s art in glass had on their commissioning congregations. The windows feature leaded mottled, opalescent, dichroic, streaky, acid-etched, and ripple glass in vibrant hues, with each type of glass employed to magnify the effect of the whole. The symbolic imagery present is minimal yet powerful: one rose is centered by a crown (representing Christ), and the other a dove (representing the Holy Spirit). When hit by the light, the layered glass reveals a cross at the center of the dove - an example of Tiffany’s ability to employ his distinct processes to heighten the emotional sensation of his designs.
Rescued from imminent demolition, the rose windows from St. Paul’s Presbyterian are a rare market appearance for such large, complex, and unusual windows by America’s most famous art glass designer.
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The sale was supposed to be in mid-May, but I can’t find any updates.