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Property from a Private Chicago Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp

Live auction begins on:

December 11, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Bid

42,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Chicago Collection

Tiffany Studios

"Dragonfly" Table Lamp


circa 1915

with a "Twisted Vine" base

designed by Clara Driscoll

leaded glass, gilt bronze

shade impressed TIFFANY STVDIOS N.Y. 1495-1

base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/443

26 in. (66 cm) high

20 ¼ in. (51.4 cm) diameter of shade

William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 22-23 (for the shade and base pairing)

Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004 p. 283 (for the base)

Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 42 and 104 (for the base)

David A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, pp. 52-55 (for the shade)

Margaret K. Hofer and Rebecca Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, pp. 56 (for the shade and base pairing); 60, 66 and 132 (for the base)

Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 106, no. 413 and 172, no. 696 (for the shade); 106, no. 414, 170, no. 685 and 182, no. 730 (for the base)