Important Design
Important Design
Property from a Private American Collection
Tiffany Studios and Grueby Faience Company
“Fleur de Lis” Table Lamp
Auction Closed
December 8, 07:38 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private American Collection
Tiffany Studios and Grueby Faience Company
“Fleur de Lis” Table Lamp
circa 1905
base designed by George Prentiss Kendrick
leaded glass, patinated bronze, glazed earthenware
base with firm's impressed mark, original paper label and numbered 84
22¾ in. (57.8 cm) high
16 in. (40.6 cm) diameter of shade
Hall Auction, August 22, 1974
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Arthur Russell, ''Grueby Pottery,'' House Beautiful, December 1898, p. 5 (for the base)
Henry Lewis Johnson, ''Exhibition of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts,'' Brush and Pencil, June 1899, p. 173 (for the base)
''American Studio Talk,'' International Studio, November 1899, p. xvii (for the base)
''Some New Designs and Methods in Rookwood [and] Grueby Faience,'' The Art Journal, special extra number, The Paris Exhibition, June 1900, p. 60 (for the base)
Walter Ellsworth Gray, “Latter-Day Developments in American Pottery,” Brush and Pencil, January 1902, pp. 236 and 240 (for the base)
Pendleton Dudley, “The Work of American Potters,” Arts and Decoration, November 1920, p. 21 (for the base)
Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916, Princeton, 1972, p. 137 (for the base)
Grueby, exh. cat., Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1981, pp. 6 and 8 (for the base)
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 87 (for the base)
Susan J. Montgomery, The Ceramics of William H. Grueby, Lambertville, NJ, 1993, pls. XIII and XLV (for the base model in an ochre glaze)
Grueby Pottery: A New England Arts and Crafts Venture: The William Curry Collection, exh. cat., Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1994, p. 9 (for the base)
Jonathan Clancy and Martin Eidelberg, Beauty in Common Things: American Arts & Crafts Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, 2008, pp. 61 and 74 (for the base)
Henry Lewis Johnson, ''Exhibition of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts,'' Brush and Pencil, June 1899, p. 173 (for the base)
''American Studio Talk,'' International Studio, November 1899, p. xvii (for the base)
''Some New Designs and Methods in Rookwood [and] Grueby Faience,'' The Art Journal, special extra number, The Paris Exhibition, June 1900, p. 60 (for the base)
Walter Ellsworth Gray, “Latter-Day Developments in American Pottery,” Brush and Pencil, January 1902, pp. 236 and 240 (for the base)
Pendleton Dudley, “The Work of American Potters,” Arts and Decoration, November 1920, p. 21 (for the base)
Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916, Princeton, 1972, p. 137 (for the base)
Grueby, exh. cat., Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1981, pp. 6 and 8 (for the base)
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 87 (for the base)
Susan J. Montgomery, The Ceramics of William H. Grueby, Lambertville, NJ, 1993, pls. XIII and XLV (for the base model in an ochre glaze)
Grueby Pottery: A New England Arts and Crafts Venture: The William Curry Collection, exh. cat., Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1994, p. 9 (for the base)
Jonathan Clancy and Martin Eidelberg, Beauty in Common Things: American Arts & Crafts Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, 2008, pp. 61 and 74 (for the base)