Property from The Schur Family Collection
Tiffany Studios
An Important and Rare "Magnolia" Floor Lamp
Auction Closed
December 11, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from The Schur Family Collection
Tiffany Studios
An Important and Rare "Magnolia" Floor Lamp
circa 1910
design attributed to Agnes Northrop
with a "Chased Pod" senior floor base and "Pig Tail" finial
leaded glass, patinated bronze
shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/25886 and with the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company monogram
75 ¾ in. (192.4 cm) high
28 ¼ in. (71.8 cm) diameter of shade
Samuel Bowne Parsons, Jr., Flushing, New York, commissioned from Tiffany Studios, by repute
Thence by descent
Private Collection, acquired from the above, circa 1978
Acquired from the above by the present owner
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 74-75 and 100-101 (for the shade)
Alastair Duncan, Martin Eidelberg and Neil Harris, Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, London, 1989, p. 114. fig. 50 (for the shade)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 8-9 and 91-95 (for the shade)
Margaret K. Hofer and Rebecca Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, pp. 80-81 (for the shade); 40 (for the base)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 225, nos. 878-880 (for the shade); 228, no. 890 (for the base)
