Important Dandelion Lamp
Artist/Company: Tiffany Studios
Date Purchased: May 13, 2021
Location: Rago Arts and Auction Center
Estimates: $50,000 - $75,000
Realized Price: $3,745,000
USA, 1900
hand-blown Favrile glass, hammered and patinated copper
29.5 h × 11.5 dia in (75 × 29 cm)
Etched to shade ‘M3962’.
Impressed to base ‘TIFFANY G. & D. CO. NEW YORK S 1293’.
Provenance: Private Estate, Virginia
Exhibited: Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris | Pan-American Exposition, 1901, Buffalo
Literature: Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, Lamps, Koch, pg. 123 Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Duncan, pg. 38 illustrate this example Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Duncan, pg. 313