“Tyler” Tiffany Lamp

A rare and historically significant Tiffany Studios New York glass and bronze “Tyler” lamp, the shade featuring an iridescent blue glass decorative pattern on a richly mottled green and yellow glass background. The shade is 16” in diameter, which makes it almost certainly a prototype for the later, standard 18” diameter Tyler shade. The shade sits atop an iridescent blue and silver iridescent blown glass base, and was originally illuminated using an oil canister, later converted to electricity. This lamp is a consummate example of the ingenuity and creativity of the earliest period of Tiffany Studios lighting. Similar shade pictured in “Tiffany Lamps and Metalware. An illustrated reference to over 2000 models” by Alastair Duncan, p.75, plate #1440.