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Description:
Tiffany Studios Dragonfly Table Lamp, New York, c. 1900, glass, bronze, each dragonfly with cream striated glass wings, blue bodies and cabochon glass eyes, acid-etched bronze overlay wings, all set against a mottled blue, green and cream background, shade stamped on inside rim "Tiffany Studios New York 1462-10," shade rests on a bronze long body crutch base with square foot, stamped on the underside with applied rectangular tag "Tiffany Studios New York 444," and the impressed mark of Tiffany Decorating and Glass Company, ht. 21, shade dia. 17 in.
Literature: Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, new edition, pages 21, 27, 51, 133, 159 (for the shade),page 108 (for the base).
Estimate $20,000-40,000
Very few scattered tight heat cracks. One socket replaced.
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Keywords
Glass Company, Alastair Duncan
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