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This
lamp appeared in Sotheby's April
1995 auction for the collection of John Mecom Jr.
The shaped domical shade with four rooundels in transparent pale lemmon-yellow
glass with fractured glass inclusions in lime-green, emerald-green, grass-green
and lemmon yellow, within a brickwork surround in striated and opalescent
mauve and puce, mauve or maroon and sea green, each surrounded by three
dragonflies with outspread wings, their wings and bodies in mottles sapphire
blue, their wings in rich cerulean blue streaked with emerald green or
purple, the lower border set with four leafy branches in mottles sea green
and emerald green and opalescence, reserved against a fractured glass
ground matching the roundels; the ovoid base cast in low relief with upright
leafage, further raised on an inverted leaf-form foot, has finial, shade
impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1532-1, base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW
YORK/189/S146/26646/160. The medallions with heat cracks. Height 18 1/2"
Daimeter 13 1/2".
The only other example of this very rare lamp was offered in these rooms
from the estate of Walter P. Chrysler Jr, June 16, 1989.
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