A 'WISTERIA' LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE TABLE LAMP

Details

A 'WISTERIA' LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE TABLE LAMP
BY TIFFANY STUDIOS

The domed shade with soft shoulders and irreguler lower border, the pale lavender-grey and white blossoms with some pale blue mottling towards the bottom, interrupted by mottled and striated spring-green leaves with light green stems pendent from the pierced network of bronze branches above, the cast tree-trunk base with rich red, green and brown patina, the shade tags stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK and 10117, with applied paper label Lillian Nassau 60.616b, the base stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 7879 and 7879, with applied paper labels Lillian Nassau 60.616.a and Los Angeles County Museum
27in. (68.6cm.) high, 18½in. (47.0cm.) diameter of shade

Provenance

Lillian Nassau, New York

Literature

Peter Selz and Mildred Constantine, eds., Art Nouveau: Art and Design at the Turn of the Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, p. 107, fig. 182

Exhibited

The Museum of Modern Art
The Carnegie Institute of Art
Los Angeles County Museum
The Baltimore Museum of Art

Lot Essay

In reflected light, the glass of the wisteria lamp appears a mottled soft blue.

The wisteria model was designed by Mrs. Curtis Freshel and was put into production circa 1904. See Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1964, p. 134 for discussion of designer and pl. v for illustration of a wisteria lamp.