'Dragonfly' table light, 1899 – Tiffany Studios, New York | Lot 547

Lot: 547

Tiffany Studios, New York
'Dragonfly' table light, 1899

H. 68 cm, Ø 52 cm. Shade designed by Clara Driscoll. Made around 1906. Leaded opal glass, cabochons, blue, green, pink and yellow. Décor: seven large dragonflies with spread wings. The lead is coppered, green and brown patina. Wings of sheet copper, structured. Foot of bronze with brown and green patina. Marked below the shade: platelet TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK, below the foot: TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK S220 443.

We would like to thank Alastair Duncan for confirming that this lamp is authentic. Provenance: Hamburg private collection.

>> Literature

Hammer Price: 54,000 €

141C - Auction Art Nouveau - Art Deco
21. November 2018 at 2:00 PM CET

Literature:

Louis C. Tiffany, Meisterwerke des amerikanischen Jugendstils, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Cologne 1999, p. 241, lot 21, photo p. 90; identical; Eidelberg/Gray/Hofer, A new Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, New York, 2007, Clara Driscoll received a bronze medal for her Dragonfly lamp with arched shade at the Paris World Fair 1900.

The items can be viewed and inspected prior to the auction; they all are, without exception, used and of a certain age. Their actual state of preservation is - corresponding to their age and their used state - not being referred to expressly in the catalogue and on the internet, but is agreed specification (cf. Conditions of sale, art. 4). The auction house cannot be held liable for malfunction or nonfunction of electrical devices. Condition reports can be forwarded on demand. They serve as a better survey on the item's condition based on the auctioneer's assessment.
Read our Terms & Conditions.

Tiffany Studios, New York 'Dragonfly' table light, 1899

Auctions

Tiffany Studios, New York
'Dragonfly' table light, 1899