Important Design

Important Design

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Property from a Private American Collection

Teco Pottery

Table Lamp

Auction Closed

December 8, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private American Collection

Teco Pottery

Table Lamp


circa 1905

base designed by William B. Mundie; model no. 271

shade designed by Orlando Giannini; executed by Giannini and Hilgart, Chicago, Illinois

leaded glass, patinated bronze, glazed earthenware

base impressed TECO three times and 271

canister impressed 271

17 in. (43.2 cm) high

10⅞ in. (27.6 cm) diameter of shade

Louise Luther, Massachusetts
Acquired from the above by the present owners, circa 1990
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)