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TIFFANY STUDIOS

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$ 441 000
Auction dateClassic
08.12.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1105358
Lot 216 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
TIFFANY STUDIOS

Important and Rare 'Dragonfly' Table Lamp, circa 1905

with a rare 'Cattail Pond Lily' base

leaded glass, patinated bronze

24 in. (61 cm) high, 20 ½ in. (52 cm) diameter of shade

shade with a small early tag impressed TIFFANY STVDIOS NEW YORK

canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1261





Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 1994, lot 555 (shade)

Lillian Nassau, New York

Private Florida Collection

Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios, Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2021, lot 308

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

M. T. Priestman, Lamps and Art and Economy in Home Decoration, New York, 1908, p. 138A (for a period illustration of the shade and base model)

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, pl. iv (shade model)

Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 32, no. 24 (shade model); 99, no. 144 (base model)

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, New York, 1971, pp. 125, no. 193 (base model); 128, no. 200 (shade model)

H. F. McKean, The “Lost” Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1980, p. 189 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 62, no. 169 (shade model); 65, no. 177 (shade and base model); 88, no. 236 (base model); 105, no. 283 (shade model); 110, no. 296 (shade model); 135, no. 359 (shade model); 137, no. 364 (shade model)

W. Feldstein, Jr. and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 22-23 (shade model); 132-133 (base model)

A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, p. 39 (base model)

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1989, pp. 18 (shade model) and 125 (base model)

A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 105 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 17 and 294 (base model)

M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 27, fig. 30 (for a period advertisement depicting the base model); 162-163, pl. 47 (base model); 174-175, pl. 52 (base model);

M. Eidelberg, N. Gray, and M. K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, exh. cat., The New York Historical Society, New York, 2007, pp. 54-55, fig. 23 (base model)

D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, pp. 20-21 (shade model); 52-53, no. 2 (shade and base model); 54-55 (shade model)

M. K. Hofer and R. Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, The Neustadt Collection at the New York Historical Society, exh. cat., New York Historical Society, New York, 2016, pp. 47 (base model); 54, no. 20 (shade model); 56, no. 22 (shade model); 57, no. 23 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 11 (for a period advertisement depicting the base model); 55, no. 178 and 111, no. 433 (base model); 106, no. 413 and 172, no. 696 (shade model)

P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I, Santa Fe Springs, 2023, pp. 132, no. 5-100 (shade model); 137, no. 5-121 (shade model); 138, nos. 5-124 and 5-125 (base model); 174, nos. 6-98 (base model) and 6-99 (shade); 175, no. 6-100 (base model); 207, nos. 7-53 and 7-54 (shade model); 231, nos. 8-13 and 8-14 (for period advertisements of the base model); 248, no. 8-84 (base model); 257, no. 8-114 (shade model); 289, no. 9-85 (shade and base model)
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