TIFFANY STUDIOS | "PEONY BORDER" FLOOR LAMP

Collection of Lilly Elizabeth Peterson, New York, acquired directly from Tiffany Studios, circa 1913-1914

Thence by descent to the present owner

Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, p. 79 (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, p. 78, no. 210 and p. 141, no. 377 (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, p. 204, nos. 786 (for the shade) and 789 (for a variant of the base); p. 205, nos. 792 and 794 (for the shade)

Margaret K. Hofer and Rebecca Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, p. 105 (for the shade)

Lilly Elizabeth Peterson worked as a maid at Hyde Park where she personally served Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt encouraged her to invest her savings in a lamp from Tiffany Studios. Following her employer's advice, Lilly purchased the present "Peony Border" floor lamp around 1913 or 1914. A classic and stately example of Tiffany's leaded glass lighting, the lamp has remained within the family since the period.