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

"Spider" Table Lamp

Auction Closed

December 6, 11:14 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tiffany Studios

"Spider" Table Lamp


circa 1905

with a "Mushroom" base and "Spider" finial

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 337

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/7000

18 in. (45.7 cm) high

15 in. (38.1 cm) diameter of shade

Private American Collection

Sotheby’s New York, December 12, 2018, lot 304

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, p. 73 (for the shade and base pairing)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, p. 95, no. 256 (for the shade and base pairing)

Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1989, p. 190 (for the shade and base pairing)

Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2016, p. 121 (for the shade and base pairing)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 72, nos. 264-265 (for the base)