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Tiffany Studios

"Turtle-Back" Triple Inkstand

Auction Closed

December 8, 12:14 AM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tiffany Studios

"Turtle-Back" Triple Inkstand


circa 1905

with three period favrile glass inkwell liners

patinated bronze, Favrile glass

impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/ 1071

the inkwell liners each engraved L.C.T.

4⅝ inches (11.7 cm) high

7 inches (17.8 cm) diameter

Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey, October 14, 2016, lot 143
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, p. 54
Alastair Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, p. 63 (for the present lot illustrated)
John Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, p. 199
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, p. 437, no. 1736