Tiffany Studios New York "Vine Border" Floor Lamp
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$32,500
This stunning Tiffany Studios "Vine Border" Harp Floor Lamp features a golden and mottled green grape vines against a mottled golden geometric ground. The vine border pattern was commonly found on Greek red-figure pottery, typically on vessels meant for storing or mixing wine. On such vessels, dionysiac groups of maenads and satyrs would carry grapevine branches and thyrsi, wands wound with grape leaves, carried during festivals and religious ceremonies.
Item #: L-21750
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 12" diameter, 57.5" height.
Materials: Bronze, Favrile Glass
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York
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: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1988. Shade: p. 125, plate 527 ; base: p. 210, plate 820.
Item #: L-21750
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 12" diameter, 57.5" height.
Materials: Bronze, Favrile Glass
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York
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: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1988. Shade: p. 125, plate 527 ; base: p. 210, plate 820.
As a born artist, Louis Tiffany’s love of color and light was innate, but his interest in controlling and diffusing light with glass developed during his career as an interior designer. By 1885, he had collaborated with Thomas Edison in the pioneering project of electrifying the Lyceum Theater’s footlights. By the first decade of the 1900s, according to Robert Koch, over 500 models of shades and bases had been developed, some of which were unique.
As a born artist, Louis Tiffany’s love of color and light was innate, but his interest in controlling and diffusing light with glass developed during his career as an interior designer. By 1885, he had collaborated with Thomas Edison in the pioneering project of electrifying the Lyceum Theater’s footlights. By the first decade of the 1900s, according to Robert Koch, over 500 models of shades and bases had been developed, some of which were unique.
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