Stained-glass Tiffany window sells for record $12.48 million at auction

CNN — A stained-glass Tiffany window originally designed for an Ohio church has sold for $12.48 million at auction. The Danner Memorial Window fetched more than $5 million over the upper limit of its estimated value when it went on sale at the New York branch of Sotheby’s on Monday. Courtesy Sotheby's The dazzling window, which stands at 16 feet high, was the result of a collaboration between acclaimed artist Louis Comfort Tiffany – son of Tiffany & Co. founder Charles Lewis Tiffany – and Agnes Northrop, one of the firm’s leading designers. “Created at the peak of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Agnes Northrop’s careers, this spectacular landscape window epitomizes Tiffany’s unrivaled artistry.