A "Magnolia" auctioned in 1985 sold for $528,000. One auctioned recently, sold for $990,000. A "Zinnia" recently sold for over a million.
"A 鈥楲otus鈥?sold at auction ...for $2.8 million, the highest amount for public sale," she said. "But there have been quite a few lamps reaching the seven-figure level at auction. That very 鈥楲otus鈥?lamp I sold privately in 1994 in Japan for $4.6 million from the owner here in New York, who had originally had purchased two of them. The first one was sold at Sotheby鈥檚 a year earlier for $1.1 million. The second came back and was sold at Christie鈥檚.
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The record price for an original Tiffany Studios lamp at a public sale exceeds US$8,000,000.
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The star lot of Christie's Dec. 7 sale of Tiffany lamps and glass is an unusually large poppy floor lamp, circa 1910. Its unpublished estimate, according to Gilges, is $1.2 million to $1.5 million.
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While we know the provenance of the Magnolia lamp, the identity of the buyer at $1,762,500 is shrouded in mystery. This world-record Tiffany stands more than 79 inches high with a leaded glass shade, and is profusely decorated with magnolia buds and petals. The leaded bronze and glass Peony Lamp went to ... for $750,500,... A fruit leaded glass and bronze table lamp achieved the next highest bid of $530,500, slightly below the high estimate of $550,000. Its distinguished provenance includes the dealer Lillian Nassau and collector Burt Sugarman.
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Bronze Tiffany cobweb lamp sold for $783,500 at Sotheby's.
The major highlight of the day was the sale of the Virginia Creeper Lamp.
A booming ovation filled the auction room as the lamp sold for $1.1 million to a private Japanese buyer.
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|||The site below is a beginning. the Original Tiffany lamps, after a bit of reworking in the wiring of them, are still in use today. That's what makes them so out of range for collectors!
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