TIFFANY STUDIOS

AN EARLY FAVRILE GLASS AND BRONZE FLUID LAMP, CIRCA 1900

Details

TIFFANY STUDIOS
An Early Favrile Glass and Bronze Fluid Lamp, circa 1900
22 in. (56 cm.) high, 18½ in. (47 cm.) diameter of shade
well stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK with Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co. monogram

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 3 March 1997, lot 354.

Literature

A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: Galerie Art Focus, Max Kohler Sammlung, Rotkreuz, 1997, p. 39.

Exhibition catalogue, Louis C. Tiffany: Meisterwerke des amerikanischen Jugendstils, Hamburg, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1999, p. 82 ill., cat. no. 24.

M. Eidelberg, et al., The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 16, no. 12.

Lot Essay

This exquisite fuel lamp is an early and rare example of Tiffany Studios' production. Tiffany's earliest lamps were made to burn oil, and the blown glass base was a decorative means of accomodating the font. The shade comprises panels of glass leaded together covered by a layer of intricate bronze filigree. The whole sits on shaped feet formed of bronze and pressed glass. While the overall effect is exotic, perhaps Moorish or Byzantine, there are no direct quotations from any particular time or place--evidence of the masterful creativity of Tiffany Studios.

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