Important Design

Important Design

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Property from a Distinguished West Coast Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished West Coast Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1905

with a rare reticulated blown glass "Pineapple" base

leaded glass, favrile glass, patinated bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1462-16

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/28610

23¼ in. (59.1 cm) high

17¼ in. (43.8 cm) diameter of shade

for the shade:
Christie's New York, June 11, 1999, lot 116
Geyer Collection, Pound Ridge, New York
Sotheby's New York, December 18, 2013, lot 338
Private Collection, United States
Sotheby's New York, December 13, 2017, lot 225
Acquired from the above by the present owner

for the base:
Mannie and Helen La Barbara Collection
Phillips New York, March 20, 1998, lot 257 
Geyer Collection, Pound Ridge, New York
Sotheby's New York, December 18, 2013, lot 338
Private Collection, United States
Sotheby's New York, December 13, 2017, lot 225
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 92-94 (for the shade) and 95 (for the base)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005,  pp. 64 and 187 (for the shade); pp. 99 and 129 (for the base)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 21, no. 35, 27, nos. 52 and 54, 51, no. 165 and 133, no. 535 (for the shade); p. 73, no. 268 (for the base)