Design Including Art Glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany from The Doros Collection

Design Including Art Glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany from The Doros Collection

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Property from a Houston Texas Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Lot Closed

March 14, 04:55 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

Property from a Houston Texas Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1910

with a "15th Century" base

leaded glass, etched metal

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS. N.Y 1495

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/528

27 ½ in. (70 cm) high

20 ⅜ in. (51.8 cm) diameter of shade

Likely purchased at Marshall Fields, Chicago, circa 1920

Thence by descent to the present owner

William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, p. 23 (for the shade);

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

Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2016, p. 169 (for the shade)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 106, no. 413 and 172, no. 696 (for the shade); 117, nos. 453-454, 188, no. 748, 208, no. 809 (for the base)