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TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 236
08.12.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 85 680
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1105362
Lot 236 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS

'Dragonfly' Table Lamp, circa 1910

leaded glass, patinated bronze

26 in. (66 cm) high, 20 ¼ in. (51.4 cm) diameter of shade

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1496

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 357





Provenance

Barry Friedman, New York

Macklowe Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1977



Literature

“Esposizione di Torino,” Arte italiana, Decorativa e Industriale, 1902, no. 12, p. 68 (for a period photograph of the base model exhibited at the Turin Exposition of Industrial Arts, 1902)

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

Dr. E. Neustadt, Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 32, no. 24 (shade model); 99, no. 143 (base model); 102-105, nos. 148-153 (shade model)

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, New York, 1971, pp. 124, no. 192 (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 model); 67, no. 184 (base model); 105, no. 283 (shade model); 110, no. 296 (shade model); 125, no. 336 (base 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)

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

A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 320 (base model)

M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 26, fig. 28 (for a period photograph of the base model exhibited at the Turin Exposition of Industrial Arts, 1902)

D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, pp. 20-21 (shade model); 52-55, no. 2 (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. 54, no. 20 (shade model); 56, no. 22 (shade model); 57, no. 23 (shade model); 98-99, no. 52 (base model)

A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 85, nos. 324-325 (base model); 106, no. 413 (shade model); 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); 174, no. 6-99 (shade); 207, nos. 7-53 and 7-54 (shade model); 208, no. 7-59 (base model); 216, no. 7-87 (base model); 231, no. 8-14 (for a period advertisement of the baes model); 257, no. 8-114 (shade model); 293, no. 9-97 (base model)
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