TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 529
09.12.2022 17:00UTC -05:00
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ID 872056
Lot 529 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS

Rare 'Geometric and Turtle Back' Hanging Light, circa 1905

leaded glass, patinated bronze

12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm) diameter of shade, 56 in. (142.2 cm) drop

with early tag impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK





Provenance

Phillips Bathurst Motley, Westmount, Quebec, circa 1906

Thence by decent to his son, Phillips Carey Motley, Westmount Quebec, circa 1946

Thence by descent

Sotheby's, New York, 15 June 2011, lot 9

Burton and Paula Geyer, New York

The Geyer Collection: Masterworks of Tiffany and Prewar Design, Sotheby's, New York, 11 December 2018, lot 21

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector’s Guide, New York, 1971, p. 28 (for a related example)

A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, p. 280 (for related examples)
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