LOT DETAILS

Materials:

leaded glass and patinated bronze

Size Notes:

diameter of shade: 57.2 cm

Markings:

shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK/1507-27, telescopic base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/397

Literature:

Memorials in Glass and Stone: Tiffany Favrile Glass, Tiffany Windows, Tiffany Mosaics, Tiffany Monuments, Tiffany Granite, New York, 1913 (for the Carnegie memorial window in Scotland in an advertisement for Tiffany’s Ecclesiastical Department). Heather Ewing, Life of a Mansion, the Story of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2014, p. 74 (for the present lot illustrated in the Picture Gallery of the Carnegie Mansion) and p. 83 (for a smaller Dragonfly lamp model from the Carnegie Collection, now in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Provenance:

Collection of Andrew Carnegie and Louise Whitfield Carnegie, New York, circa 1905. Thence by descent to the present owner