ID 872052
Lot 509 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
‘Hanging Head Dragonfly’ Floor Lamp, circa 1905
leaded glass, patinated bronze
68 in. (172.7 cm) high, 24 in. (61 cm) diameter of shade
shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1507
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 378
Provenance
Team Antiques, Great Neck, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978
Literature
Dr. E. Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 171-178 (shade)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector’s Guide, New York, 1971, p. 112 (for a period photograph of this base), 134 (base)
P. Doros, The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum, Richmond, 1978, p. 145 (shade)
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 93, no. 248 (shade); 95, no. 259 (shade); 102, no. 278 (shade); 106, no. 286 (for shade); 122, no. 330 (shade); 220, no. 635 (base)
A. Duncan and W. Feldstein, Jr., The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 102-103, 168-169 (shade)
T. Paul, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1987, p. 87 (shade)
A. Duncan, et. al., Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1993, p. 114-115, 155 (shade)
J. Baal-Teshuva, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Cologne, 2001, pp. 136-137, 317 (shade)
M. May, Great Art Glass Lamps: Tiffany, Duffner & Kimberley, Pairpoint, and Handel, Atglen, 2003, p. 42 (shade)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, p. 305 (shade)
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland, and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 195-197 (shade)
M. Eidelberg, et al., A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, London, 2007, p. 62 (shade)
R. M. Pepall, Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, 2009, p. 176, no. 133 (shade)
M. Hofer and R. Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, pp. 53 and 55 (shade)
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 9 (for a period photograph of this shade); 95, no. 365; 176, no. 711 (shade); 232, no. 909 and 910 (base); 239, no. 950 (shade)
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Art style: | Aestheticism, Arts & Crafts (1880-1910) |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires |
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Art style: | Aestheticism, Arts & Crafts (1880-1910) |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires |
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