LOUIS C. TIFFANY AND ASSOCIATED ARTISTS
Library Table for the William S. Kimball House, Rochester, New York, circa 1881
canary wood, patinated brass
30 3⁄4 x 40 x 27 3⁄4 in. (78.2 x 101.5 x 70.5 cm)
LOUIS C. TIFFANY AND ASSOCIATED ARTISTS
Library Table for the William S. Kimball House, Rochester, New York, circa 1881
canary wood, patinated brass
30 3⁄4 x 40 x 27 3⁄4 in. (78.2 x 101.5 x 70.5 cm)
William S. Kimball, Rochester, New York, commissioned from Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists, New York, circa 1881 Family member of Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, circa 1920 Thence by descent Garrison Kingsley, circa 1991 Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, 26 October 1991, lot 592 Margot Johnson, New York The Garden Museum Collection, Matsue, Japan, circa 1992 Allen Michaan, California, acquired from the above, 2012
G. William Sheldon, Artistic Houses, vol. 2, pt. 2, New York, 1884, pp. 159-160, pl. 30-31 (for period photographs of the William S. Kimball house) The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age, New York, 1987, pp. 70, pl. 52 and 81, pl. 67 (for period photographs of the William S. Kimball house) A. Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 1992, p. 39 (for period photographs of the William S. Kimball house) T. Horiuchi, A Selection of 300 Works from Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum, Japan, 2001, p. 173, no. 252 (present lot illustrated) A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection, Suffolk, 2004, pp. 85, 86, and 88 (for period photographs of the William S. Kimball house), 86 (for the present lot in situ at the William S. Kimball house), 87 (present lot illustrated)
Last image: An Interior view of the William S. Kimball House, Rochester, New York, circa 1883
Please note the additional provenance for this lot:
William S. Kimball, Rochester, New York, commissioned from Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists, New York, circa 1881 Family member of Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, circa 1920 Thence by descent Garrison Kingsley, circa 1991 Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, 26 October 1991, lot 592 Margot Johnson, New York The Garden Museum Collection, Matsue, Japan, circa 1992 Allen Michaan, California, acquired from the above, 2012
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