Louis Comfort Tiffany, Artistry in Glass: The Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Artistry in Glass: The Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection

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Louis Comfort Tiffany, Artistry in Glass: The Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Live auction begins on:

December 13, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Bid

42,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Artistry in Glass: The Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1905

with a rare "Tobacco Leaf" base

designed by Clara Driscoll

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK

oil canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/7815

15 in. (38.1 cm) high

14 in. (35.6 cm) diameter of shade

Private Collection, acquired in 1990

William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, p. 171 (for the shade)

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)

Boca Raton Museum of Art, ed., Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artistry in Glass, The Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection, Boca Raton, FL, 2007, p. 16 (for the present lot illustrated)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany: Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 30, no. 66 (for the base); 82, no. 310 and 196, no. 768 (for the shade)

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artistry in Glass, The Seymour and Evelyn Holtzman Collection, Boca Raton, FL, 2007