ID 1105369
Lot 220 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
'Wisteria' Table Lamp, circa 1904
leaded glass, patinated bronze
27 ½ in. (69 cm) high, 18 ¼ in. (46.4 cm) diameter of shade
shade with small early tag impressed TIFFANY STVDIOS NEW YORK 1073 4
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 27770 9
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1990, lot 917
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, n.p., pl. v; p. 187
Dr. E. Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 215-220, nos. 287-293
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, New York, 1971, pp. 125, no. 194; 131, no. 208
J. Purtell, The Tiffany Touch, New York, 1971, p. 131
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Art Glass, New York, 1977, n.p., fig. 48
B. Deisroth, “Tiffany Today,” Nineteenth Century, Vol. IV, No. 1, Philadelphia, 1978, p. 67, no. 10
P. E. Doros, The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum of Norfolk, Norfolk, 1978, pp. 126-127, no. 194
H. F. McKean, The “Lost” Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1980, p. 191
A. Duncan, Tiffany Windows, New York, 1980, p. 69 (for a period photograph of the workshop with this model illustrated)
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 89, no. 238; 148, no. 391
W. Feldstein, Jr. and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, cover, pp. 36-37
T. Paul, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1987, p. 94
A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, p. 40, no. 14
A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 106
M. May, Great Art Glass Lamps: Tiffany, Duffner & Kimberley, Pairpoint, and Handel, Atglen, 2003, p. 40
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 17, 292-293
C. and P. Fiell, 1000 Lights: 1879-1959, Cologne, 2005, pp. 90-91
M. A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, pp. 6 and 186, cat. 92
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 106-107, cat. no. 15
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, cover and pp. 48-49, fig. 19
R. M. Pepall, Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, 2009, pp. 162-163; 177, cat. no. 134
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. 86-87, nos. 43-44
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 11 (for a period advertisement depicting the model); 76-77, nos. 283-287
C. de la Bédoyère, Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterworks, London, 2020, p. 136
P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I, Santa Fe Springs, 2023, pp. 92, no. 4-64 (shade model); 99, no. 4-90 (shade model); 181-184, nos. 6-113-6-125; 192, no. 6-154; 233, no. 8-21; 244, no. 8-71 (for a period advertisement of the model); 283, no. 9-65; 312, no. 10-37
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