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Property from the Private Collection of a New York Antiquarian
TIFFANY STUDIOS

'Poppy' Table Lamp, circa 1915

Details
TIFFANY STUDIOS
'Poppy' Table Lamp, circa 1915
with a rare 'Cattail' base
leaded glass, patinated bronze
24 in. (61 cm) high, 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm) diameter of shade
shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK T531
canister impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1261
Provenance
Cecile Singer, New York
Estate of Cecile Singer, Sotheby's, New York, 10 March 2005, lot 106
Private Collection, Florida
A.B. Levy's, West Palm Beach, Florida, 23 August 2018, lot 118
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Dr. E. Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 99, no. 144 (base); 108-110, nos. 157-161 (shade)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector’s Guide, New York, 1971, p. 125, fig. 193 (for a period illustration of the base)
A. Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 65, no. 177 (base) and no. 178 (shade); 88, no. 236 (base); 111, no. 299 (shade); 263, no. 805 (shade)
W. Feldstein, and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 92-93 (shade), 132-133 (base)
A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, p. 39, no. 13 (base)
J. Baal-Teshuva, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Cologne, 2001, pp. 150 (shade), 319 (shade)
M. May, Great Art Glass Lamps: Tiffany, Duffner & Kimberley, Pairpoint, and Handel, Atglen, 2003, p. 27 (shade)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 17 (shade and base), 294, 345 (for a watercolor study for a ‘Poppy’ shade)
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. McClelland, and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 68, no. 91 and 72, no. 99 (for a watercolor study for a poppy shade); 76, no. 105 (for a sample panel of this shade); 128 and 131, no. 29 (shade); 162-163, no. 47 (base); 174-175, no. 52 (base)
M. Eidelberg, N. Gray, and M. K. Hofer, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, exh. cat., The New York Historical Society, New York, 2007, p. 56, fig. 24 (for a watercolor study for a ‘Poppy’ shade)
M. Hofer and R. Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, pp. 46-47 (base), 59-60 (shade)
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 58, no. 191 (shade); 111, no. 433 (base); 159, no. 648 (shade)

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