Important Design

Important Design

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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Auction Closed

December 8, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1904

with a rare “Turtle-Back” base

leaded glass, favrile glass, patinated bronze

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/227

oil canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/227 with the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company monogram

19½ in. (49.5 cm) high

17 in. (43.2 cm) diameter of shade

For the shade:
Lillian Nassau, New York
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner

For the base:
Minna Rosenblatt, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 62 (for the base) and 92-94 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 96 and 143 (for the base)
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, p. 151 (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)
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); pp. 56-57, nos. 181-182 (for the base)