ID 1105370
Lot 208 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 180 000 – 220 000
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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