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TIFFANY STUDIOS

'Dragonfly' Table Lamp, circa 1910

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TIFFANY STUDIOS
'Dragonfly' Table Lamp, circa 1910
leaded glass, patinated bronze
26 in. (66 cm) high, 20 ¼ in. (51.4 cm) diameter of shade
shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1496
base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 357
Provenance
Barry Friedman, New York
Macklowe Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1977
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)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: Rebel in Glass, New York, 1964, pl. iv (shade model)
Dr. E. Neustadt, Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 32, no. 24 (shade model); 99, no. 143 (base model); 102-105, nos. 148-153 (shade model)
R. Koch, Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, New York, 1971, pp. 124, no. 192 (base model); 128, no. 200 (shade model)
H. F. McKean, The “Lost” Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1980, p. 189 (shade model)
A. Duncan, Tiffany at Auction, New York, 1981, pp. 62, no. 169 (shade model); 65, no. 177 (shade model); 67, no. 184 (base model); 105, no. 283 (shade model); 110, no. 296 (shade model); 125, no. 336 (base model); 135, no. 359 (shade model); 137, no. 364 (shade model)
W. Feldstein, Jr. and A. Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, pp. 22-23 (shade model)
A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 105 (shade model)
A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 320 (base model)
M. Eidelberg, A. Cooney Frelinghuysen, N. A. McClelland and L. Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 26, fig. 28 (for a period photograph of the base model exhibited at the Turin Exposition of Industrial Arts, 1902)
D. A. Hanks, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, exh. cat., The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 2013, pp. 20-21 (shade model); 52-55, no. 2 (shade model)
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. 54, no. 20 (shade model); 56, no. 22 (shade model); 57, no. 23 (shade model); 98-99, no. 52 (base model)
A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 85, nos. 324-325 (base model); 106, no. 413 (shade model); 172, no. 696 (shade model)
P. Crist, Tiffany Lamps: A History, Mosaic Shades, Volume I, Santa Fe Springs, 2023, pp. 132, no. 5-100 (shade model); 137, no. 5-121 (shade model); 174, no. 6-99 (shade); 207, nos. 7-53 and 7-54 (shade model); 208, no. 7-59 (base model); 216, no. 7-87 (base model); 231, no. 8-14 (for a period advertisement of the baes model); 257, no. 8-114 (shade model); 293, no. 9-97 (base model)

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