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:Crushed art glass was well received at Skinner's Twentieth Century Design purchase December 17, and Tiffany was a reliable favorite. Although the lots across the stumbling-block spanned the century, the highlight of the nearly 800-lot sale was a Tiffany Studios Dragonfly flatland lamp that sold in the gallery for $74,063. The dragonflies, with protuberant amber red eyes, were set against a blue-fresh ground embedded with green jewels. The shade was signed and the decorated bronze despicable was marked "Tiffany Studios, New York 359."
A mosaic glass Snowball fare lamp with an irregular border was not marked, but stood on a bronze verdigris filthy marked "Tiffany Studios, New York 351," and sold for $11,850.
A Tiffany Studios bronze and art plate glass lamp cap with a gold Favrile glass finial was unmarked, but still realized $5,925. A Tiffany Studios hanging Acorn lamp that retained the Tiffany Studios tag went to $11,331. A Tiffany Studios Acorn itemization lamp, circa 1905, which catalog notes indicate was remarkable "Tiffany Studios 1435" and inscribed "Goodyer Guilford Conn.," sold for $10,073; a Tiffany Studios Lily lamp on a bronze lily pad unseemly with seven lights brought the same price.
Source: Antiques and the Arts Online