A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection
Tiffany Studios
"Dragonfly" Table Lamp
Auction Closed
June 11, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection
Tiffany Studios
"Dragonfly" Table Lamp
circa 1910
with a rare "Petal" base
leaded glass, gilt bronze
shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1462
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/586
23 in. (58.4 cm) high
17 ¼ in. (43.8 cm) diameter of shade
Christie's New York, June 8, 1991, lot 385
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 64 and 187 (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, pp. 14-15 and 96 (for the shade)
Margaret K. Hofer and Rebecca Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, p. 54 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 21, no. 35, 27, nos. 52 and 54, 51, no. 165 and 133, no. 535 (for the shade); 128, nos. 502-503 and 208, no. 809 (for the base)