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'Jeweled Turtle-Back Tile' Desk Lamp, circa 1903

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'Jeweled Turtle-Back Tile' Desk Lamp, circa 1903
Favrile glass, leaded glass, patinated bronze
14 ¼ x 8 ¾ x 6 in. (36.2 x 22.2 x 15.3 cm)
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS 28632
Provenance
Private Collection, West Coast
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2000
Literature
“Esposizione di Torino,” Arte italiana, Decorativa e Industriale, 1902, no. 12, p. 68 (for a period photograph of the base model exhibited at the Turin Exposition of Industrial Arts, 1902)
Dr. E. Neustadt, Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, p. 55, no. 70
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, p. 87, no. 234
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 26, fig. 29 (for this model at the Turin Exposition of Industrial Arts, 1902)
M. A. Johnson, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, London, 2005, p. 46, cat. 8
D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, p. 51 (for a period photograph of the base model exhibited at the Turin Exposition of Industrial Arts, 1902)
M. K. Hofer and R. Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, The Neustadt Collection at the New York Historical Society, exh. cat., New York Historical Society, New York, 2016, pp. 46, no. 15
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 98, no. 378
P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I, Santa Fe Springs, 2023, p. 136, no. 5-117

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