A late 19th-century stained-glass window by Tiffany Studios, known as the Boyd Family Memorial Window (The Falls), is set to be auctioned at Christie's New York in June with an estimate of up to $2 million. The window, commissioned in 1898 and installed in 1899 at the Second Congregational Church in Winsted, Connecticut, depicts a waterfall landscape and has been in the church for about 125 years.
The sale is part of a growing trend of major Tiffany windows moving from their original, often religious, settings into private collections and museums. Proceeds will support the church's operations. This market shift is highlighted by recent high-profile acquisitions and sales, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2023 purchase of a Tiffany window and Sotheby's 2024 record $12.4 million sale of another, indicating strong and evolving collector and institutional demand for these significant works of American design.