Lot Essay
Tiffany was awarded a grand prize at the Turin Exhibition in 1902 for his lily-cluster design with morning-glory shades. The original design consisted of eighteen bulbs; however, the shape was adapted to bronze and gilt-bronze lamps that accommodated three to twenty bulbs and was available in table and floor variations. The model was quite popular in both Europe and American. See Die Ausstellung Zu Turin in Moderne Dekorative Kunst, 1902 for illustration of a lily-cluster table lamp exhibited at the Turin Exhibition in 1902; Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass, Crown Publisher's, Inc., New York, 1964, p. 134 for discussion of the design.