Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios, Featuring Property From The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dreaming in Glass: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios, Featuring Property From The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Property from an Important Asian Collection
Tiffany Studios
"Dragonfly" Table Lamp
Auction Closed
December 13, 07:16 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Asian Collection
Tiffany Studios
"Dragonfly" Table Lamp
circa 1910
with a "Tree" base
design attributed to Clara Driscoll
leaded glass, patinated bronze
shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1507
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/553/3
30 in. (76.2 cm) high
22 in. (55.9 cm) diameter of shade
The Warshawsky Collection
The Warshawsky Collection: Masterworks of Tiffany and Prewar Design, Sotheby's New York, May 19, 2015, lot 89
Acquired from the above by the present owner
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 103 and 169 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Martin Eidelberg and Neil Harris, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, London, 1989, p. 115 (for the shade)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 34 and 196-197 (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. 62 and 189 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany: Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 9, 95, no. 365, 176, nos. 709 and 711 and 239, no. 950 (for the shade); 126, no. 488 (for the base)
