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Tiffany Studios

Jeweled "Turtle-Back" Inkstand

Auction Closed

December 11, 12:30 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tiffany Studios

Jeweled "Turtle-Back" Inkstand


circa 1905-1910

with a clear glass inkwell liner

favrile glass, patinated bronze

impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK and 1067

3 7/8  in. (9.8 cm) high

4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) diameter

Bonhams, New York
The Geyer Collection
Sotheby's New York, October 7, 2019, lot 2
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paul E. Doros, The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Norfolk, VA, 1978, p. 144
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany At Auction, New York, 1981, p. 52
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide, New York, 1989, p. 90
Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch, Atglen, PA, 2001, p. 214
John Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, 2002, p. 197
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007, pp. 428 and 436
William R. Holland, Tiffany Desk Sets, Atglen, PA, 2008, p. 233