Important Design

Important Design

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Property from the Collection of Seymour A. Lemler

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Seymour A. Lemler

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1915

with a "Mushroom" base

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1585

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/337

18½ in. (47 cm) high

14 in. (35.6 cm) diameter of shade

Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, pl. iv (for the shade)
Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, p. 130 (for the shade and base pairing)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 77, no. 206 and 98, no. 267 (for the shade); p. 95, no. 256 (for the base)
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, p. 171 (for the shade)
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1989, p. 190 (for the base)
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, PA, 2001, p. 71 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 304 and 306 (for the shade)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 194 (for the shade)
Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, exh. cat., New York Historical Society, 2007, p. 67 (for the shade)
Margaret K. Hofer and Rebecca Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, p. 126
Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, PA, 2016, p. 121 (for the base)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 72, nos. 264-265 (for the base); pp. 82, no. 310 and 196, no. 768 (for the shade)