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TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 212
08.12.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
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$ 126 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1105377
Lot 212 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS

‘Hanging Head Dragonfly’ Table Lamp, circa 1910

leaded glass, patinated bronze

31 ½ in. (80 cm) high, 22 ½ in. (57.2 cm) diameter of shade

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 8867

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 531





Provenance

Private Collection, Japan

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Dr. E. Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 171-178, nos. 237-246 and 248-249 (shade model)

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, New York, 1971, pp. 143, no. 239 (base model); 195, nos. 35 (base model) and 42 (shade model)

P. Doros, The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum, Richmond, 1978, p. 145 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 62, no. 170 (base model); 63, no. 171 (base model); 93, no. 248 (shade model); 95, no. 259 (shade model); 102, no. 278 (shade model); 106, nos. 286 (shade model) and 287 (base model); 111, no. 299 (base model); 122, no. 330 (shade model); 123, no. 332 (base model); 131, no. 346 (base model); 263, no. 805 (base model)

W. Feldstein, Jr. and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 102-103 (shade model); 168-169 (shade model)

T. Paul, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1987, p. 87 (shade model)

A. Duncan, et. al., Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1993, pp. 114-115 and 155, no. 51 (shade model)

J. Baal-Teshuva, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Cologne, 2001, pp. 136-137, 317 (shade model)

M. May, Great Art Glass Lamps: Tiffany, Duffner & Kimberley, Pairpoint, and Handel, Atglen, 2003, p. 42 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 304-305 (shade model)

M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland, and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 4 (shade model); 79, fig. 110 (for a period photograph of shade model); 195-197, pl. 61-61 (shade model)

M. A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 161, cat. 66 (shade 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, p. 62, fig. 28 (shade model)

R. M. Pepall, Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, 2009, p. 176, no. 133 (shade model)

D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, pp. 56-57, no. 4 (base 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. 52-53, no. 19 (shade model); 55, no. 21 (shade model)

A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 9 (for a period photograph of this shade model); 95, no. 365 (shade model); 118, nos. 458-459 (base model); 176, no. 711 (shade model); 209, no. 812 (base model); 239, no. 950 (shade model)

C. de la Bédoyère, Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterworks, London, 2020, pp. 152-153 and 200 (shade model)

P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I, Santa Fe Springs, 2023, pp. 98, no. 4-88 (shade model); 138, no. 5-122 (shade model); 177, no. 6-107 (shade model); 207, nos. 7-51 and 7-52 (shade model); 222, no. 7-110 (shade model); 261, no. 8-123 (shade model); 277, no. 9-40 (base model); 279, no. 9-50 (shade model); 313, nos. 10-38 and 10-41 (base model); 314, no. 10-44 (shade model); 315, no. 10-47 (base model)
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