Lot 149
  • 149

TECO POTTERY | A Rare Table Lamp

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Teco Pottery
  • A Rare Table Lamp
  • base impressed TECO three times and 271canister impressed 271
  • leaded glass, patinated bronze, glazed earthenware
  • 17 in. (43.2 cm) high10 7/8  in. (27.6 cm) diameter of shade
  • circa 1905
based designed by William B. Mundie; model no. 271shade designed by Orlando Giannini; executed by Giannini and Hilgart, Chicago, Illinois

Provenance

Luther Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owners, circa 1990

Exhibited

“The Art that is Life”: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 4-May 31, 1987; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 16-November 1, 1987; The Detroit Institute of Arts, December 9, 1987-February 28, 1988; Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, April 5-June 26, 1988

Literature

Wendy Kaplan, "The Art that is Life": The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987, p. 388 (for the present lot illustrated)
Sharon S. Darling, Teco: Art Pottery of the Prairie School, exh. cat., Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, 1989, pp. 38, 51, 125 (for related lamps) and 148 (for the base model)