$126,000
Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000
Auction: October 26, 2022 12:00 PM EDT
With "Twisted Vine" base
Leaded glass, patinated bronze
The shade with impressed tag: "TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1531"
The base impressed: "TIFFANY STUDIOS. NEW YORK 443"
Provenance
By repute, the Collection of Guy Bascom St. John (American, 1878-1955)
Thence by descent to Private Virginia Family Collection
Literature
For the shade:
Alastair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 294
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, pp. 50, 141, 162
Martin Eidelberg et. al., The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 130
Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 108-110
For the base:
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, pp. 94, 149
Martin Eidelberg et. al., The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, pp. 42, 104
Margaret K. Hofer and Rebecca Klassen, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios: Nature Illuminated, New York, 2016, pp. 60, 66, 132