Tiffany Studios

“Jeweled Geometric” Table Lamp

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Tiffany Studios

“Jeweled Geometric” Table Lamp

circa 1905

with a telescoping "Ball" base and finial

leaded glass, favrile glass, patinated bronze

shade with a small early tag impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/678

29¾ in. (75.6 cm) high

22¼ in. (56.5 cm) diameter of shade

Please note the provenance for this lot has been updated to reflect its full history, having been held in the Sydney and Frances Lewis Art Trust Collection from 1973-2000. The full provenance is as follows: Private Collection; Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, June 12, 1973, lot 253; Sydney and Frances Lewis Art Trust Collection; Christie’s New York, Tiffany: Innovation in American Design Including Property from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Art Trust Collection and the Estate of Leslie H. Nash, December 8, 2000, lot 370; Private Collection, Virginia; Geoffrey Diner, Washington, D.C., 2007; Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010.

Private Collection

Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, June 12, 1973, lot 253

Sydney and Frances Lewis Art Trust Collection

Christie’s New York, Tiffany: Innovation in American Design Including Property from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Art Trust Collection and the Estate of Leslie H. Nash, December 8, 2000, lot 370

Private Collection, Virginia

Geoffrey Diner, Washington, D.C., 2007

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010

Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, p. 177 (for the base)
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 27 (for the shade) and 127 (for the base)
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, PA, 2001, p. 243 (for the base)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 86 (for the base)
Marilyn A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 161 (for the base)
Margaret K. Hofer and Rebecca Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, pp. 53 (for the base)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 92, nos. 352 (for the shade and base pairing) and 353 (for the base)