The Cycad Collection: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios and Prewar Design

The Cycad Collection: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios and Prewar Design

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Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Auction Closed

December 6, 11:14 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1910

with a "Mushroom" base and "Spider" finial

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1585

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/337

18⅜ in. (46.7 cm) high

13⅞ in. (35.2 cm) diameter of shade

Private Collection, New York

Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut

Sotheby's New York, May 24, 2018, lot 312

Acquired from the above by the present owner

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, pp. 130 (for the base) and 131 (for the shade)

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 shade and 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)

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, pp. 72, nos. 264-265 (for the base) and 82, no. 310 (for the shade)