ID 872055
Lot 517 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
'Dragonfly' Table Lamp, circa 1905
with a rare 'Cattail Pond Lily' base
leaded glass, patinated bronze
24 in. (61 cm) high, 20 3/8 in. (51.8 cm) diameter of shade
shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK
base impressed TIFFANY STVDIOS NEW YORK 24466 and 1.
canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 24466 and 1
Provenance
Sturges Family, circa 1950
Bonhams, New York, 16 December 2006, lot 5056
William A. Richardson, Las Vegas
Masterworks by Tiffany Studios: The William A. Richardson Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 13 December 2017, lot 324
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, pl. iv (shade)
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 62, no. 169 (shade); 65, no. 177; 105, no. 283 (shade); 110, no. 296 (shade); 135, no. 359 (shade); 137, no. 364 (shade)
A. Duncan and W. Feldstein, Jr., The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 22-23 (shade), 132-133 (base)
A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 105 (shade)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, p. 294 (base)
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 27 (for a period advertisement of base); 162-163, no. 47 (base); 174-175 (base)
M. Eidelberg, et. al., A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, New York, 2007, pp. 54-55, fig. 23 (base)
D. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, New York, 2013, pp. 52-55
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 106, no. 413 (shade); 111, no. 433 (base); 172, no. 696 (shade)
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires |
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires |
| Address of auction |
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