TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 409
10.06.2022 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 756 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 773237
Lot 409 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 350 000 – 500 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS
Early and Rare 'Dragonfly and Waterflowers' Table Lamp, circa 1900
leaded glass, mosaic Favrile glass, patinated bronze
17 3⁄4 in. (45.1 cm) high, 16 in. (40.6 cm) diameter of shade
oil canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 23866
with custom Garden Museum Collection case




Provenance

Lillian Nassau, New York
Barbra Streisand, Los Angeles, 1979
The Garden Museum Collection, Matsue, Japan, circa 1990
Allen Michaan, California, acquired from the above, 2012



Literature

Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, Lamps and Fixtures, New York, 1899, no. 67 (for a period photograph of the 'Dragonfly and Waterflowers' shade)
Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of L'Art Nouveau: S. Bing, Paris, London, 1899, p. 22 (for a description of this model which debuted in this exhibition)
W. R. Bradshaw, "Favrile Glass", The House Beautiful, vol. 7, no. 5, April 1900, p. 278 (for a reference to the 'Dragonfly and Waterflowers' design)
E. Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, p. 131 (for a period photograph of the base)
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 143, no. 380 (base), 256, no. 781 (for a period photograph of the 'Dragonfly and Waterflowers' shade)
A. Duncan, M. Eidelberg, and N. Harris, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, London, 1989, p. 80 (for a period photograph of the 'Dragonfly and Waterflowers' shade)
T. Horiuchi, ed., The World of Louis Comfort Tiffany: A Selection from The Anchorman Collection, Japan, 1994, p. 81 (present lot illustrated)
T. Horiuchi, A Selection of 300 Works from Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, Japan, 2001, p. 92, no. 104 (present lot illustrated)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 306-307 (present lot illustrated)
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 21 (for a period photograph of the 'Dragonfly and Waterflowers' shade), 186-188 (base)
M. Eidelberg, N. Gray and M. K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, London, 2007, inside cover (base) pp. 14, fig. 3 (for a period illustration of the base from New York Daily News, April 17, 1904), 15, fig. 4 (base), 42, 45, 60, 66 (for references pertaining to Clara Driscoll’s designs for the 'Dragonfly' lampshade model), 96-97 (base)
K. Conway and L. Parrott, Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, Corning, New York, 2017, p. 197 (for an illustration of the model from New York Daily News, April 17, 1904)
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 2 and 27, no. 54 (base), 47, no. 147 and 56, no. 181 (shade)



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