Important Design
Important Design
Property from a Private Family Collection
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Family Collection
TIFFANY STUDIOS
“FISH AND WATER” TABLE LAMP
circa 1900
with a "Crutch Oval" base with "Turtle-Back" band
leaded glass, patinated bronze
shade with small early tag impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK
base impressed with firm's logo
oil canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/190
23½ in. (59.7 cm) high
17 in. (43.2 cm) diameter of shade
Private Collection, Albany, New York, early 20th Century
Thence by descent to the present owner, circa 1970s
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 72, no. 195 (for a variant of the shade) and 132, no. 348 (for the base)
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, p. 51 (for a variant of the shade)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 199 (for a variant of the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, pp. 29, nos. 75-76 (for the base) and 141, no. 586 (for a variant of the shade)
