Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios, Featuring Property From The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios, Featuring Property From The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Property from an Important Asian Collection

Tiffany Studios

“Begonia” Table Lamp

Auction Closed

December 13, 07:16 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Asian Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Begonia" Table Lamp


circa 1910

with a small "Tree" base

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade with small early tag impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/384

17 in. (43.2 cm) high

13 ½ in. (34.3 cm) diameter of shade

The Warshawsky Collection

The Warshawsky Collection: Masterworks of Tiffany and Prewar Design, Sotheby's New York, May 19, 2015, lot 37

Acquired from the above by the present owner

William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 152-153

Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 157 and 159

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany: Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 79, no. 294 (for the shade and base pairing); 91, no. 349 (for the base)