The Cycad Collection: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios and Prewar Design
The Cycad Collection: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios and Prewar Design
"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)
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