A 'TURTLEBACK' LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE FLOOR LAMP

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A 'TURTLEBACK' LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE FLOOR LAMP
BY TIFFANY STUDIOS

The domed shade with beaded border, leaded with sixteen iridescent green turtleback tiles and with partial tiles between them, the floor base cast with pods and raised on four petal feet, the standard surmounted by an oil canister cast in relief with a band of pods, stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 379
56in. (142.2cm.) high, 23¼in. (59cm.) diameter of shade, with finial

Lot Essay

cf. Hugh F. McKean, The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1980, p. 124, fig. 115 for an illustration of a hanging turtleback tile lamp in situ in the living room of Tiffany's home, Laurelton Hall, circa 1902-1904.