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Rare 'Elaborate Grape' Table Lamp, circa 1903

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TIFFANY STUDIOS
Rare 'Elaborate Grape' Table Lamp, circa 1903
leaded glass, patinated bronze
27 in. (68.6 cm) high, 18 in. (45.7 cm) diameter of shade
shade with small tag impressed TIFFANY STVDIOS NEW YORK and 28276
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1462
with custom Garden Museum Collection case
Provenance
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 11 June 1992, lot 284
The Garden Museum Collection, Matsue, Japan
Allen Michaan, California, acquired from the above, 2012
Literature
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany's Glass-Bronzes-Lamps, A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1971, p. 130, no. 207 (for a period photograph of the 'Elaborate Grape' table lamp)
H. F. McKean, The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1980, p. 277, fig. 271 (for the above period photograph)
A. Duncan and W. Feldstein, Jr., The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 148-149 and cover
A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle: Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 25-27 (present lot illustrated)
T. Horiuchi, ed., The World of Louis Comfort Tiffany: A Selection from The Anchorman Collection, Japan, 1994, p. 74 (present lot illustrated)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2001, p. 242 (for a period photograph of the 'Elaborate Grape' table lamp)
T. Horiuchi, A Selection of 300 Works from Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, Japan, 2001, p. 98, no. 116 (present lot illustrated)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, p. 285 (present lot illustrated)
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. McClelland, L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 112-113
M. Eidelberg, N. Gray and M. K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, London, 2007, pp. 58, 60 (for a discussion about the attribution of Clara Driscoll for this design)
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 78, no. 291 (for a period photograph of the 'Elaborate Grape' table lamp) and 292

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