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TIFFANY STUDIOS

Lot 176
08.06.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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$ 176 400
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 976513
Lot 176 | TIFFANY STUDIOS
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS

'Poppy' Table Lamp, circa 1915

with a rare 'Cattail' base

leaded glass, patinated bronze

24 in. (61 cm) high, 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm) diameter of shade

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK T531

canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1261





Provenance

Cecile Singer, New York

Estate of Cecile Singer, Sotheby's, New York, 10 March 2005, lot 106

Private Collection, Florida

A.B. Levy's, West Palm Beach, Florida, 23 August 2018, lot 118

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Dr. E. Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 99, no. 144 (base); 108-110, nos. 157-161 (shade)

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector’s Guide, New York, 1971, p. 125, fig. 193 (for a period illustration of the base)

A. Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 65, no. 177 (base) and no. 178 (shade); 88, no. 236 (base); 111, no. 299 (shade); 263, no. 805 (shade)

W. Feldstein, and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 92-93 (shade), 132-133 (base)

A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, p. 39, no. 13 (base)

J. Baal-Teshuva, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Cologne, 2001, pp. 150 (shade), 319 (shade)

M. May, Great Art Glass Lamps: Tiffany, Duffner & Kimberley, Pairpoint, and Handel, Atglen, 2003, p. 27 (shade)

A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 17 (shade and base), 294, 345 (for a watercolor study for a ‘Poppy’ shade)

M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. McClelland, and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 68, no. 91 and 72, no. 99 (for a watercolor study for a poppy shade); 76, no. 105 (for a sample panel of this shade); 128 and 131, no. 29 (shade); 162-163, no. 47 (base); 174-175, no. 52 (base)

M. Eidelberg, N. Gray, and M. K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, exh. cat., The New York Historical Society, New York, 2007, p. 56, fig. 24 (for a watercolor study for a ‘Poppy’ shade)

M. Hofer and R. Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, pp. 46-47 (base), 59-60 (shade)

A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 58, no. 191 (shade); 111, no. 433 (base); 159, no. 648 (shade)
Manufactur:Tiffany Studios
Medium:Glass
Art style:Art Nouveau
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps, Lamps and luminaires
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