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Tiffany Studios New York "Peony" Border Floor Lamp
The vibrantly colored shade of this Tiffany Studios "Peony" border lamp features a mottled cyan geometric upper register and with lower border comprising a band of peonies in various stages of development in variegated shades of red and pink with mottled green, orange and blue green leaves and stems, above a border row of mottled cyan glass. The shade sits on a patinated bronze senior “Scroll” floor base, and is topped with a reticulated metal pigtail finial in matching patina.
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Item #: YL-21341
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 79" height, 24" diameter.
Materials: Leaded Glass, Bronze
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 1574
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York
Literature: A similar shade and base are pictured separately in: Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An illustrated reference to over 2000 models, by Alastair Duncan, Woodbridge: Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1988. Shade: p. 204, plate 786; base: p. 203, plate 782. A similar shade is also pictured in: The Lamps of Tiffany, by Dr. Egon Neustadt, New York: The Fairfield Press, 1970, p. 79, plate 111.
In Victorian times, peonies represented bashfulness, since mischievous nymphs were said to hide in their magnificent petals. With this in mind, it is easy to imagine how the Tiffany Studios New York designer responsible for such a fabulous interplay of color and glass was able to come up with such a playful and multifaceted design.