Harp Desk Lamp with Favrile Shade
Tiffany Studios
Lot-No. 697
Proceeds : 5.700 €
Tiffany Studios, New York. Designed around 1902, made around 1910/20. Height-adjustable 'harp' base in patinated bronze, the favrile shade iridescent in gold and rose shades, the base in the form of a many-petalled trumpet flower. One lamp socket. Patinated bronze, Favrile glass. H. 45 cm, shade: H. 12,7 cm, diam. 25,3 cm. Bottom plate impressed: TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/569; shade signed on the inside at the upper edge: L.C.T. Gold patina at the foot slightly worn, Favrile shade at the upper rim min. damaged, electrification in need of overhaul. - Literature: Comp. to the 'harp' base: A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, New Edition: fully revised and extended. ACC Art Books Suffolk 2019, p. 145, no. 587 and p. 146, no. 593; a similar copy is pictured in: Louis C. Tiffany: Meisterwerke des amerikanischen Jugendstils. Katalogbuch zur Ausst. im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, bearb. von R. Joppien u.a., Köln 1999, fig. p. 84, cat.no. 29 - Provenance: Estate Countess Finck von Finckenstein-Brinkama -
Tiffany Studios: Harp Desk Lamp with Favrile Shade
Tiffany Studios
Harp Desk Lamp with Favrile Shade
Lot-No. 697
Proceeds : 5.700 €
Tiffany Studios, New York. Designed around 1902, made around 1910/20. Height-adjustable 'harp' base in patinated bronze, the favrile shade iridescent in gold and rose shades, the base in the form of a many-petalled trumpet flower. One lamp socket. Patinated bronze, Favrile glass. H. 45 cm, shade: H. 12,7 cm, diam. 25,3 cm. Bottom plate impressed: TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/569; shade signed on the inside at the upper edge: L.C.T. Gold patina at the foot slightly worn, Favrile shade at the upper rim min. damaged, electrification in need of overhaul. - Literature: Comp. to the 'harp' base: A. Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, New Edition: fully revised and extended. ACC Art Books Suffolk 2019, p. 145, no. 587 and p. 146, no. 593; a similar copy is pictured in: Louis C. Tiffany: Meisterwerke des amerikanischen Jugendstils. Katalogbuch zur Ausst. im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, bearb. von R. Joppien u.a., Köln 1999, fig. p. 84, cat.no. 29 - Provenance: Estate Countess Finck von Finckenstein-Brinkama -
