TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 208
08.12.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 180 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1105370
Lot 208 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 180 000 – 220 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS

Rare 'Dragonfly' Table Lamp, circa 1900

with a rare Favrile blown glass base with pebble and filigree decoration

leaded glass, Favrile glass

20 in. (50.8 cm) high, 17 in. (43.2 cm) diameter of shade

canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 28982 with Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company monogram





Provenance

Edwin Ernest Hayward, Sr., New Jersey, Manager of the Ecclesiastical Arts Department, Tiffany Studios, New York

Thence by descent to Richard Hayward, New Jersey

Tiffany: Innovation in American Design, Christie's, New York, 10 December 1998, lot 403

William B. Dietrich, Villanova, Pennsylvania

Thence by descent to the present owner



Literature

“Moderne Beleuchtungskörper,“ Dekorative Kunst, vol. 1, Munich, 1898, p. 12 (for a period photograph of the base model at the Salon l’Art Nouveau in Paris, 1898)

Dr. E. Neustadt, Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 92-93, nos. 129-130 (shade model); 129, no. 181 (base model)

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, New York, 1971, p. 121, no. 184 (base model)

A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 142-143, nos. 379-380

W. Feldstein, Jr. and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 94-95 (shade model); 96-97 (base model); 98-99 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 102 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 306 (shade model)

M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 14-15, fig. 11 (base model); 21, fig. 22 (for a period photograph of a related Dragonfly and Favrile glass base oil lamp); 64-65, fig. 86 (shade model); 186-187, pl. 57 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 2 (shade model); 21, no. 35 (shade model); 27, nos. 52 and 54 (shade model); 51, 165 (shade model); 58, no. 189 (base model); 133, no. 535 (shade model); 160, no. 651 (base model)

P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I, Santa Fe Springs, 2023, pp. 82, no. 4-20 (for a period photograph of the base model at the Salon l’Art Nouveau in Paris, 1898); 120, no. 5-49 (base model); 126, no. 5-76 (shade model); 133, nos. 5-104 and 5-105 (shade model); 155, nos. 6-32 and 6-33 (shade model); 167, no. 6-70 (shade model); 206, no. 7-48 (shade model)



Further Details

This lot is accompanied by a copy of a letter of provenance from Richard E. Hayward, grandson of Ernest E. Hayward.

Christie’s would like to thank Richard P. Hayward, great-grandson of Ernest E. Hayward, for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
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