Design
Design
Property from the Cycad Collection
Tiffany Studios
Seven-Piece "Art Deco" Desk Set
Lot Closed
March 12, 04:07 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Tiffany Studios
Seven-Piece “Art Deco” Desk Set
circa 1922
comprising one large inkstand with a rare decorated favrile glass liner, one small inkstand with interior period clear glass liner, one letter rack, one pen tray, one rocker blotter, and one pair of blotter ends
gilt and enameled bronze
the large inkstand, the small inkstand, the letter rack, the pen tray, the rocker blotter, and the two blotter ends impressed with LOUIS C.
TIFFANY FURNACES INC., with the firm's monogram and respective model numbers
blotter ends: 19 ½ x 2 ⅝ in. (49.5 x 6.7 cm) each
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, December 12, 2018, lot 346
Acquired from the above by the present owner
George A. Kemeny, Tiffany Desk Treasures: A Collectors Guide, New York, 2002, pp. 88 (for the rocker blotters) and 90 (for the letter tray)
William R. Holland, Tiffany Desk Sets, Atglen, PA, 2008, pp. 189 (for the pen tray and letter tray), 190 (for the rocker blotter), 191 (for the large inkstand), 193 (for the blotter ends), 195 (for the small inkstand)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 540, no. 2160 (for the large inkstand, letter rack, pen tray, rocker blotter and pair of blotter ends)