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TIFFANY STUDIOS AND GRUEBY FAIENCE COMPANY

Lot 127
07.12.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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$ 26 460
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1105278
Lot 127 | TIFFANY STUDIOS AND GRUEBY FAIENCE COMPANY
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 20 000
TIFFANY STUDIOS AND GRUEBY FAIENCE COMPANY

'Pomegranate' Table Lamp, circa 1904

base designed by Ruth Erickson

leaded glass, glazed ceramic, patinated bronze

20 in. (50.8 cm) high, 15 7⁄8 in. (40.3 cm) diameter

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK

base impressed with manufacturer's mark GRUEBY FAIENCE Co. BOSTON, U.S.A.





Provenance

Christie's, New York, 14 December 1991, lot 29

John Markus, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

C. Ruge, “Amerikanische Keramik,” Dekorative Kunst, no. 14, Munich, 1906, p. 170 (base), 175 (for a period photograph of related Tiffany Studios shades with Grueby Pottery bases)

W. Ellsworth Gray, "Latter-Day Developments in American Pottery," Brush and Pencil, vol. IX, no. 4, January 1902, p. 240 (for a period photograph of a related Tiffany Studios shade with a Grueby Pottery base)

R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s: Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, New York, 1971, p. 185 (Appendix I: Price list of 1906, patent no. 1561, for a description of a related shade model)

S. J. Montgomery, "The Ceramics of William H. Grueby," Arts and Crafts Quarterly Press, Lambertville, New Jersey, 1993, pp. 30, fig. 39 (base model); 43, fig. 57 (base model); 53, fig. 74 (for a period photograph of a related Tiffany Studios shade with a Grueby Pottery base) and plate XV of the color photograph appendix (for related examples of the base)

M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 27, fig. 31 (for a period photograph of related Tiffany Studios shades with Grueby Pottery bases)

A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 158, no. 643 (shade model)

P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I, Santa Fe Springs, 2023, pp. 91, no. 4-59 (shade model); 100, no. 4-97 (shade model); 159, no. 6-45 (shade model); 240-243 (for related Tiffany shades with Grueby Pottery bases); 243, no. 8-63 (shade and base model); 276, no. 9-37 (shade model with a related Grueby Pottery base)
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
20 Rockefeller Plaza
10020 New York
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