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An Artistic Vision: Property of a Distinguished Chicago Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Lot Closed

March 14, 04:50 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Artistic Vision: Property of a Distinguished Chicago Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1905

leaded glass, patinated bronze

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

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/370

22 1/2 in. (57.1 cm) high

17 in. (43.2 cm) diameter of shade

Private Collection

Macklowe Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1996

Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 92-94 (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lighting, London, 1978, p. vii (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 102 (for the shade)

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, 96 (for the shade)

Margaret K. Hofer and Rebecca Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, pp. 28 (for the base) and 54 (for the shade)

Kelly A. Conway and Lindsay R. Parrott, Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, 2017, p. 197 (for a drawing of the shade model)

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); p. 88, no. 337 (for the base)