ID 964771
Lot 17 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
'Peony' Table Lamp, circa 1910
with a rare 'Bird Skeleton' base
leaded glass, patinated bronze27 ¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high, 18 ¼ in. (46.3 cm.) diameter of shade
shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1475-53
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 442Tiffany Studios
Provenance
(Shade)
Warshawsky Corporate Collection, Chicago.
Tiffany Lamps from the Warshawsky Corporate Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 1996, lot 122.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
(Base)
The Warshawsky Corporate Collection, Chicago.
Tiffany Lamps from the Warshawsky Corporate Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 1996, lot 187.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Dr. E. Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 146, no. 208 (base).
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Collector’s Guide, New York, 1971, p. 128, no. 200 (base).
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 60, no. 166 (shade); 131, no. 345 (shade).
A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 24-25, no. 5 (base); 36, no. 10 (shade).
A. Duncan, The World of Louis Comfort Tiffany: A Selection from The Anchorman Collection, Nayoga, 1994, p. 78 (base).
C. Schwartz and F. H. Perrell, La Belle Époque, exh. cat., Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, 1995, p. 72 (shade).
T. Horiuchi, A Selection of 300 works from the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, Tokyo, 2001, p. 100, no. 121 (base).
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 282 (base).
M. Eidelberg, N. Gray and M. K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, London, 2007, p. 192 (base).
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland, and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 116-117 (base).
M. Hofer and R. Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, p. 89 (base).
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 107, no. 415 (base).
Special notice
Please note this lot will be moved to Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS in Red Hook, Brooklyn) at 5pm on the last day of the sale. Lots may not be collected during the day of their move to Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services. Please consult the Lot Collection Notice for collection information. This sheet is available from the Bidder Registration staff, Purchaser Payments or the Packing Desk and will be sent with your invoice.
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires |
| Manufactur: | Tiffany Studios |
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| Medium: | Glass |
| Art style: | Art Nouveau |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires |
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