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

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1905

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade with small early tag impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/9516

26¼ in. (66.7 cm) high

20½ in. (52.1 cm) diameter of shade

Please note the estimates of this lot have been updated.

James D. Julia, Inc., Fairfield, Maine, November 21, 2013, lot 2350

James F. Scott, Gallison Hall, Charlottesville, Virginia

Sotheby's New York, December 12, 2018, lot 341

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 102-105 (for the shade)

Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1989, p. 128 (for the shade)

David A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, New York, 2013, pp. 52-55 (for the shade)

Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2016, p. 169 (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 106, no. 413 and 172, no. 696 (for the shade)