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Tiffany Studios New York "Belted Turtleback" Table Lamp
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The "Belted Turtleback" table lamp by Tiffany Studios New York is a refined study in monochromatic expression. Separated into three distinct tiers, the conical lamp shade offers a marriage of subtly opposing forces. The uppermost tier features rectangular panels of mottled green that graduate in size in size as they descend, eventually being interrupted by a band of richly undulating emerald green glass in a horizontal orientation. The lowermost tier features regularly sized rectangular panels, but in this instance in another horizontal orientation. The shade sits upon a patinated bronze "American Indian" base that has raised decorations resembling Indian beadwork.
Product Details:
Item #: L-21157
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 22" diameter x 30" height
Materials: Leaded Glass, Bronze
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 529
Literature: A similar shade and base are pictured separately in: Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An illustrated reference to over 2000 models, by Alastair Duncan, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antiques Collectors' Club Ltd. Shade: p. 85, plate 330;base: p. 103, plate 410.
Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes:
The strict geometric patterning in this lamp creates a structured harmony that is enliven by the interruption of the wonderfully organic turtleback tiles. With their undulating color and form, the naturalistic nature of the tiles, when juxtaposed with the smooth, near uniform tiles on the upper and lower most shade portions, brings to mind a raw gemstone situated next to a polished gem.
- Creator:Tiffany Studios (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Diameter: 22 in (55.88 cm)
- Lampshade:Included
- Style:Art Nouveau (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1900
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- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: L-211571stDibs: LU885437775042
Tiffany Studios
The hand-crafted kerosene and early electric lighting fixtures created at Tiffany Studios now rank among the most coveted decorative objects in the world. Tiffany designs of any kind are emblematic of taste and craftsmanship, and Tiffany glass refers to far more than stained-glass windows and decorative glass objects. The iconic multimedia manufactory’s offerings include stained-glass floor lamps, chandeliers and enameled metal vases. The most recognizable and prized of its works are antique Tiffany Studios table lamps.
The name Tiffany generally prompts thoughts of two things: splendid gifts in robin’s-egg blue boxes and exquisite stained glass. In 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany co-founded the former — Tiffany & Co., one of America’s most prominent purveyors of luxury goods — while his son, Louis Comfort Tiffany, is responsible for exemplars of the latter.
Louis was undoubtedly the most influential and accomplished American decorative artist in the decades that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rather than join the family business, he studied painting with several teachers, notably the scenic painter Samuel Colman, while spending long periods touring Europe and North Africa. Though he painted his entire career, visits to continental churches sparked a passionate interest in stained glass. Tiffany began experimenting with the material and in 1875 opened a glass factory-cum-laboratory in Corona, Queens — the core of what eventually became Tiffany Studios.
In his glass designs, Tiffany embraced the emerging Art Nouveau movement and its sinuous, naturalistic forms and motifs. By 1902, along with glass, Tiffany was designing stained-glass lamps and chandeliers as well as enameled metal vases, boxes and bowls, and items such as desk sets and candlesticks. Today such pieces epitomize the rich aesthetics of their era.
The lion’s share of credit for Tiffany Studios table lamps and other fixtures has gone to Louis. However, it was actually Clara Driscoll (1861–1944), an Ohio native and head of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department for 17 years, who was the genius behind the Tiffany lamps that are most avidly sought by today’s collectors. A permanent gallery of Tiffany lamps at the New-York Historical Society celebrates the anonymous women behind the desirable fixtures.
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Item #: L-21088
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1905
Dimensions: 30" height, 25" diameter
Materials: Favrile Glass, Bronze
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 7809 - 7
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 351 S166
Literature: The Lamps of Tiffany Studios by William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, P. 108-109. Louis C. Tiffany’s Glass, Bronzes, & Lamps: A Complete Collector’s Guide, by Robert Koch, P. 132, Plate 209. Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, by Alastair Duncan, P. 285. Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An Illustrated Reference to Over 2000 Models, by Alastair Duncan, P. 69. The Lamps of Tiffany, by Dr. Egon Neustadt, Pp 201-204.
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