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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2023 | Christie's | New York | Tiffany | 216 | $****** - ****** | Important and Rare "Dragonfly" Table Lamp |
design
61 x 52.1 x 52.1 cm (24 x 20.5 x 20.5 in)
leaded glass, patinated bronze
Sotheby"s, New York, 18 November 1994, lot 555 (shade)
Lillian Nassau, New York
Private Florida Collection
Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios , Sotheby"s, New York, 8 December 2021, lot 308
Acquired from the above by the present owner
M. T. Priestman, Lamps and Art and Economy in Home Decoration , New York, 1908, p. 138A (for a period illustration of the shade and base model)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: Rebel in Glass , New York, 1964, pl. iv (shade model)
Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 32, no. 24 (shade model); 99, no. 144 (base model)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany"s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps , New York, 1971, pp. 125, no. 193 (base model); 128, no. 200 (shade model)
H. F. McKean, The “Lost” Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany , New York, 1980, p. 189 (shade model)
A. Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 62, no. 169 (shade model); 65, no. 177 (shade and base model); 88, no. 236 (base model); 105, no. 283 (shade model); 110, no. 296 (shade model); 135, no. 359 (shade model); 137, no. 364 (shade model)
W. Feldstein, Jr. and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios , New York, 1983, pp. 22-23 (shade model); 132-133 (base model)
A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, p. 39 (base model)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany"s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector"s Guide, New York, 1989, pp. 18 (shade model) and 125 (base model)
A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany , New York, 1992, p. 105 (shade model)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 17 and 294 (base model)
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 27, fig. 30 (for a period advertisement depicting the base model); 162-163, pl. 47 (base model); 174-175, pl. 52 (base model);
M. Eidelberg, N. Gray, and M. K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls , exh. cat., The New York Historical Society, New York, 2007, pp. 54-55, fig. 23 (base model)
D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, pp. 20-21 (shade model); 52-53, no. 2 (shade and base model); 54-55 (shade model)
M. K. Hofer and R. Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, The Neustadt Collection at the New York Historical Society , exh. cat., New York Historical Society, New York, 2016, pp. 47 (base model); 54, no. 20 (shade model); 56, no. 22 (shade model); 57, no. 23 (shade model)
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 11 (for a period advertisement depicting the base model); 55, no. 178 and 111, no. 433 (base model); 106, no. 413 and 172, no. 696 (shade model)
P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I , Santa Fe Springs, 2023, pp. 132, no. 5-100 (shade model); 137, no. 5-121 (shade model); 138, nos. 5-124 and 5-125 (base model); 174, nos. 6-98 (base model) and 6-99 (shade); 175, no. 6-100 (base model); 207, nos. 7-53 and 7-54 (shade model); 231, nos. 8-13 and 8-14 (for period advertisements of the base model); 248, no. 8-84 (base model); 257, no. 8-114 (shade model); 289, no. 9-85 (shade and base model)
TIFFANY STUDIOS
Important and Rare "Dragonfly" Table Lamp, circa 1905
with a rare "Cattail Pond Lily" base
leaded glass, patinated bronze
24 in. (61 cm) high, 20 ½ in. (52 cm) diameter of shade
shade with a small early tag impressed TIFFANY STVDIOS NEW YORK
canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1261
