Design
Design
An Artistic Vision: Property of a Distinguished Chicago Collection
"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)