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Tiffany Studios New York "Bamboo" Table Lamp
Among the most harmonious of Tiffany Studios New York's compositions is the "Bamboo" lamp, comprised of a leaded glass "Bamboo" dome shade, decorated, of course, with a field of the marvelously colored stalks, and sitting atop a paired "Bamboo" base. The patinated bronze base and finial, which both naturalistically mimic both the appearance and strength of a segmented bamboo frond, supports a shade that dynamically interplays the upright nature of the bamboo stalk with the lovely, organic down-turning of its leaves in mottled green and brown glass against an opaque white ground.
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Item #: L-21400
Artist: Tiffany Studios New York
Country: United States
Circa: 1905
Dimensions: 22.25" diameter, 30.5" height.
Materials: Leaded glass, Bronze
Shade Signed: Tiffany Studios New York
Base Signed: Tiffany Studios New York 7358
Literature: Dr. Egon Neustadt, The Lamps of Tiffany, New York, 1970, pp. 132 (for the base) and 147 (for the shade)
William Feldstein, Jr. and Alastair Duncan, The Lamps of Tiffany Studios, New York, 1983, p. 161 (for the shade and base pairing)
Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen, The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2005, p. 155 (for the base)
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2019, pp. 111, no. 430 and 180, no. 723 (for the shade)
While Louis Comfort Tiffany purposefully designed his bases and shades to be relatively interchangeable—creating a lovely myriad of visual combinations that would breath new life into each base and each shade as they were paired—with a select few, he created full-blown compositions by pairing of two designs which were born together. Tiffany's love of the Far East led him to plant the then-exotic bamboo at his Oyster Bay estate, and perhaps inspired him to created this lamp with such a purposeful pairing.