ID 773273
Lot 437 | LAMP SHOP WORKMAN'S TOOL CHEST
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 30 000
from the collection of Joseph Briggs, circa 1900
comprising: tool chest, handmade chiseling tools, punches, hammers, soldering iron, honing stone, scribing tools, Favrile mosaic glass samples, Favrile glass tiles, glass beads, copper foil, tape measures, name plate, shades, copper foil, oil can, keys, and with a 'Byzantine' and 'Dragonfly' sample in the manner of Tiffany Studios
tool chest: 10 3⁄8 x 20 x 12 1⁄2 in. (26.4 x 50.8 x 31.8 cm)
Provenance
Joseph Briggs, Head of the Mosaic Department, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company and Tiffany Studios, New York
Thence by descent
Neil Harrington, Apopka, Florida
The Garden Museum Collection, Matsue, Japan, circa 1990
Allen Michaan, California, acquired from the above, 2012
Literature
T. Horiuchi, A Selection of 300 Works from Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, Japan, 2001, p. 204 (present lot illustrated)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 362-363 (present lot illustrated), 364 (for period photos of Joseph Briggs in studio), 369 (for period photo of Briggs and Clara Walcott Driscoll in studio, circa 1902)
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires |
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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