Lot 26: TIFFANY STUDIOS

‘Wisteria’ table lamp, model no. 342
Designed by Clara Driscoll (1861–1944) and produced by Tiffany Studios, NewYork. Interior of shade stamped four places with ‘TIFFANY STUDIOS’, ‘NEW YORK’, ‘342-1’ and ‘7879’, underside of base stamped with ‘TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/342’.

27 3/4 in (70.6 cm) high, 18 in (45.9 cm) diameter

Leaded glass, patinated bronze.

circa 1905

Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany, The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, 2004, pp. 292–93
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 106–07
Margaret Hofer, Martin Eidelberg and Nina Gray, A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, exh. cat., New-York Historical Society, New York, 2007, p. 48

Private European collection
Christie’s, New York, ‘Important Tiffany’, December 15, 2010, lot 241