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

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1905

with a telescoping reticulated "Queen Anne's Lace" base

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1507

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS 397

26 in. (66 cm) high

22 in. (55.9 cm) diameter of shade

Christie's New York, December 17, 2005, lot 320
Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida
A.B. Levy's, Palm Beach, Florida, December 6, 2018, lot 88
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 171-178 (for the shade) and 179 (for the shade and base pairing)
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 103 and 169 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Martin Eidelberg and Neil Harris, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, London, 1989, p. 115 (for the shade)
Takeo Horiuchi, ed., The World of Louis Comfort Tiffany: A Selection from the Anchorman Collection, Nagoya, Japan, 1994, p. 72 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 305 (for the shade)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 34 and 196 (for the shade and base pairing); p. 197 (for the shade)
Marilyn A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 161 (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, pp. 46 (for the base), 62 and 189 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 9 (for a period photograph of the shade), 95, no. 365 (for the shade and base pairing), 176, nos. 709 and 711 and 239, no. 950 (for the shade); pp. 95, no. 364 and 21, no. 867 (for the base)