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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 12, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | Important 20th Century Design | 27 | $****** - ****** | An Important And Rare 'Dragonfly And Waterflowers' Table Lamp |
design
43.8 cm (17.24 in)
leaded glass, favrile mosaic glass and patinated bronze
oil canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK/145; base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/145
Sotheby Parke Bernet Monaco, February 10, 1981, lot 1360 (for the shade)
Acquired from the above by Susan and Al Turner, Plymouth, MI
Minna Rosenblatt, New York
Private Collection, California
Christie's New York, March 18, 1989, lot 215 (for the shade and base)
Acquired from the above by the present owners
Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of L'Art Nouveau: S. Bing, Paris, London, 1899, p. 22 (for a description of the firm's Dragonfly lamp included in the exhibition) ; Lamps and Fixtures, New York, 1899 (for the Dragonfly and Waterflowers lamp illustrated in the firm's 1899 catalogue); W. R. Bradshaw, Favrile Glass,” The House Beautiful, April 1900, vol. VII, no. 5, p. 278 (for a reference to the Dragonfly and Waterflowers lampshade model) ; William Feldstein, Jr., and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 150-151 (for another example of the model); Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 306-307 (for another example of the model formerly in the Garden Museum Collection, Japan); Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 21 (for the period photograph of the Dragonfly and Waterflowers lamp from the firm’s 1899 catalogue); Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, London, 2007, pp. 14, 42, 45, 60, 66 and 97 (for references pertaining to Clara Driscoll’s designs for the Dragonfly lampshade model) ; Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, p. 48, no. 164 (for another example of the model) and p. 143, no. 595 (for a period illustration of the Dragonfly and Waterflowers model)
