Tiffany Studios New York "Spider" Lamp

A Tiffany Studios New York "Spider" leaded glass and patinated bronze table lamp. A patinated bronze spider finial shade, its legs dividing its web into six panels with a funnel glass peaking through. Each panel is composed of striated glass tiles that evoke the delicate threads of real spider's webs. The shade is integrated with a dark patinated bronze base. This Tiffany Studios New York glass and bronze “Spider” table lamp features a mottled green and light blue glass shade atop a patinated bronze “Inverted Mushroom” base. With Gothic, arachnid-type raised veins spreading from the clawed top of the lamp, the starkly geometric and roughly monochromatic lamp is far from simplistic, as a broadly scalloped border adds to the sense that elements of this amazing lamp are alive.
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Product Details

Item #: L-21334
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900's
Dimensions: 15" diameter, 18" height.
Materials: Leaded Glass, Bronze
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 337 - 24
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 337
Literature: ​Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, p. 73 (for the shade and base pairing) Alastair Duncan, ​Tiffany At Auction​, New York, 1981, p. 95, no. 256 (for the shade and base pairing) Robert Koch, ​Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide​, New York, 1989, p. 190 (for the shade and base pairing) ​Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany​, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2016, p. 121 (for the shade and base pairing) Alastair Duncan, ​Tiffany Lamps and Metalware​, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 72, nos. 264-265 (for the base)

Item #: L-21334
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1900's
Dimensions: 15" diameter, 18" height.
Materials: Leaded Glass, Bronze
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 337 - 24
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 337
Literature: ​Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, p. 73 (for the shade and base pairing) Alastair Duncan, ​Tiffany At Auction​, New York, 1981, p. 95, no. 256 (for the shade and base pairing) Robert Koch, ​Louis C. Tiffany's Glass, Bronzes, Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide​, New York, 1989, p. 190 (for the shade and base pairing) ​Timeless Beauty, The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany​, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2016, p. 121 (for the shade and base pairing) Alastair Duncan, ​Tiffany Lamps and Metalware​, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, p. 72, nos. 264-265 (for the base)

Curator's Notes
Though by and large a "geometric" lamp, the highly organic elements of this table lamp are what have lent it its name. With the suggestion of spider legs reaching downward over the geometric lines, the lamp shade can be read as a spider's web, backlit by the the verdure of foliage.
Though by and large a "geometric" lamp, the highly organic elements of this table lamp are what have lent it its name. With the suggestion of spider legs reaching downward over the geometric lines, the lamp shade can be read as a spider's web, backlit by the the verdure of foliage.
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