A FINE 'WISTARIA' LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE TABLE LAMP

TIFFANY STUDIOS

Details

A FINE 'WISTARIA' LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE TABLE LAMP
Tiffany Studios
26in. (67.3cm.) high, 18in. (49.5cm.) diameter of the shade
the shade tag stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK, the rounded underside of the fitter in the shade stamped 1073, the top of the 'tree-trunk' base stamped 4, the underside of the base stamped 27770 TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK, with paper label SL.69.75.1A Chrysler

Provenance

Lillian Nassau

Lot Essay

The Wisteria model is described in the Tiffany Studios Price List of 1906 as "Wistaria, lamp and shade, large" at a cost of $400. Deliberately spelled Wisteria by Nuttall, author of the genus, the woody vines are cited as "Wistaria NUTT. Fam. Leguminosae" in the 1916 edition of A Dictionary of Plant Names by H.L. Gerth Van Wijk (see 1971 reprint). The entry for Wistaria in Taylor's 1948 edition of the Encyclopedia Horticulture notes that the genus is named for Caspar Wistar (1761-1818), a professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania and that the preferred spelling of the common name is Wisteria. The notation in the Manual of Cultivated Plants by C.H. Bailey (revised edition, 1949) reads that Wistaria is a later adaptation.