Important Design

Important Design

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Property from the Cycad Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Auction Closed

June 6, 04:43 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1910

with a "Leaf" base

leaded glass, patinated bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/1495

25 ¾ in. (65.4 cm) high

20 ¼ in. (51.4 cm) diameter of shade

Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania, December 5, 2018, lot 332

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 102-105 (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 17 (for an in situ photograph of the shade)

David A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, New York, 2013, pp. 52-55 (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 106, no. 413 and 172, no. 696 (for the shade); pp. 86, no. 326-327 (for the base)