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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 12, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios | 410 | $****** - ****** | A RARE AND EARLY PAIR OF "TURTLE-BACK" LANTERNS |
design
30.5 cm (12 in)
leaded glass, bronze
Lillian Nassau, New York
Collection of John and Katsy Mecom, Houston, Texas
Sotheby"s New York, Highly Important Tiffany Lamps from the Collection of John W. Mecom, Jr. Houston, Texas , April 22, 1995, lot 18
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch , Atglen, PA, 2001, pp. 124 and 280 (for period photographs of a related "Turtle-Back" lantern in situ at Laurelton Hall)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany , New York, 2005, p. 41 (for the above mentioned period photograph)
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist"s Country Estate , New York, 2006, p. 137 (for the above mentioned period photograph)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware , Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, p. 282, no. 1097 (for one of the present lanterns illustrated)
Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany , The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, PA, 2016, pp. 108 (for the above mentioned period photograph) and 109 (for a related "Turtle-Back" lantern with related hardware)
Property from an Important American Collection
TIFFANY STUDIOS
A RARE AND EARLY PAIR OF "TURTLE-BACK" LANTERNS
circa 1895-1900
leaded glass, bronze
52 in. (132.1 cm) drop each
lanterns: 12 in. (30.5 cm) high each
10 in. (25.4 cm) diameter each
