Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios, Featuring Property From The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios, Featuring Property From The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Property from an Important Asian Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Laburnum" Table Lamp

Auction Closed

December 13, 07:16 PM GMT

Estimate

220,000 - 280,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Asian Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Laburnum" Table Lamp


circa 1910

with a telescoping reticulated “Queen Anne's Lace” base

design attributed to Clara Driscoll

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1539

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/397

28 in. (71.1 cm) high

21 in. (53.3 cm) diameter of shade

The Warshawsky Collection

The Warshawsky Collection: Masterworks of Tiffany and Prewar Design, Sotheby's New York, May 19, 2015, lot 68

Acquired from the above by the present owner

William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 139, 158-159

Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 282 (for the shade)

Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 113-116

Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, London, 2007, p. 192

Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, PA, 2016, p. 168 (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany: Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 95, no. 364-365; 221, no. 867 (for the base); 107, no. 415 and 185, no. 740 (for the shade)