TIFFANY STUDIOS

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$ 400 000
Auction dateClassic
20.10.2022 18:00UTC -04:00
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ID 819799
Lot 60 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
TIFFANY STUDIOS

Rare 'Moorish' Table Lamp, circa 1895

Favrile glass, leaded glass, patinated bronze, gilt plaster

26 1/2 in. (67.3 cm) high, 13 3/4 in. (35 cm) diameter of shade

base impressed S629





Provenance

Lillian Nassau, Ltd., New York

John Mecom, Jr., Houston, Texas, circa 1982

Highly Important Tiffany Lamps from the Collection of John W. Mecom, Jr., Houston, Texas, Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1995, lot 23

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above



Literature

"Modern American Residences," The Architectural Record, vol. 1, no. 3, January-March, 1892, p. 390 (for a related example in the Rembrandt Room of H. O. Havemeyer's New York City residence)

C. W. Post Art Gallery, The Age of Tiffany: Glass, Paintings, Bronzes, Furniture, exh. cat., New York, 1981, n.p. (present lot illustrated)

B. Delatiner, “Shedding Light on Tiffany’s Creations,” The New York Times, Art Section, Sunday, 1 February 1981, p. 19 (present lot mentioned)

D. L. Shirey, “‘Tiffany’ Illuminates Craftsman as Artist”, The New York Times, Art Section, Sunday, 8 March 1981, p. 8 (for a reference to ‘The Art of Tiffany’ at C. W. Post Gallery, Greenvale, New York)

W. Feldstein, Jr. and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 82 and 83 (present lot illustrated)

A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, New York, 2019, p. 201, no. 786 (present lot illustrated)

A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998, p. 13 (for a related example in the Rembrandt Room of H. O. Havemeyer's New York City residence)





Exhibited

Greenvale, New York, C.W. Post Art Gallery, The Age of Tiffany: Glass, Paintings, Bronzes, Furniture, February - March 1981



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