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Tiffany Studios

"Scarab" Inkstand

Auction Closed

December 6, 11:14 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tiffany Studios

"Scarab" Inkstand


circa 1903-1905

with period clear glass liner

patinated bronze

impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/29234 with the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company monogram

4½ in. (11.4 cm) high

4⅛ in. (10.5 cm) diameter

Carol Ferranti Antiques, New York, circa 1974
David Cathers, Armonk, New York
Sotheby's New York, June 14, 2006, lot 191
The Geyer Collection
Sotheby's New York, The Geyer Collection: Masterworks of Tiffany and Pre-War Design, December 11, 2018, lot 64
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The Arts and Crafts Movement in America1876-1916, The Art Museum, Princeton University, October 21-December 17, 1972, The Art Institute of Chicago, February 24-April 22, 1973, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, June 1-September 10, 1973
Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916, exh. Cat., Princeton, 1972, p. 22 (for the present lot illustrated)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, p. 54
Robert Koch, Louis C Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1989, pp. 90, no. 100 and 91, no. 101
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, PA, 2001, pp. 214-215
John Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, p. 194
Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 366 and 368
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 473-474, nos. 1908 and 1912