TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 515
09.12.2022 17:00UTC -05:00
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ID 872067
Lot 515 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS

'Laburnum' Table Lamp, circa 1915

with a 'Tree' base and 'Pig Tail' finial

leaded glass, gilt bronze

39 1/4 in. (99.7 cm) high, 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm) diameter of shade

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1537-1

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 553





Provenance

Shade:

Lothar Neumann, Gingings, Switzerland

Alastair Duncan Ltd., New York, 2001



Base:

Christie's, New York, 9 June 2005, lot 46



Shade and Base:

Burton and Paula Geyer, New York

The Geyer Collection: Masterworks of Tiffany and Prewar Design, Sotheby's, New York, 11 December 2018, lot 71

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Dr. E. Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 190 (shade), 191

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector’s Guide, New York, 1971, pp. 196, no. 44; 201, no. 85 (shade)

H. F. McKean, The Lost Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1980, p. 201 (shade)

A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 100, no. 272 (shade); 102, no. 278 (base); 113, no. 304 (shade)

A. Duncan and W. Feldstein, Jr., The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 68-69 (shade)

J. Baal-Teshuva, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Cologne, 2001, pp. 153 (base), 174-175 (shade), 322 (shade)

J. Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, p. 210 (shade)

A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 282-283 (shade), 292 -293 (base)

M. Eidelberg, A. C. Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 107 and 110-112 (base), 113-116 (shade)

M. Eidelberg, et. al., A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, London, 2007, p. 192, fig. 100 (shade)

A. Duncan Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 126, no. 488 (base); 184, no. 737-739 (shade); 238, no. 949 (shade)

C. de la Bedoyere, Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterworks, London, 2020, pp. 70-71 (shade)
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