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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Sotheby's New York: Masterworks by Tiffany Studios from the Geyer Family Collection Offered in December 2012

Sotheby’s is pleased to announce that it will offer Masterworks by Tiffany Studios from the Geyer Family Collection over the course of three sales in fall 2012, spring 2013 and summer 2013. Their first sale on 15 December 2012 is comprised of more than 60 lots by Tiffany Studios, all collected and amassed by the Geyer Family, who are renowned for their discerning eye and a connoisseur’s approach to collecting. A highlight of the sale is the rare and superb “Peony” Table Lamp (est. $800/1.2 million) circa 1910. The shade was formerly in the Collection of The Charles R. Wood Foundation in Glen Falls, New York and is now presented with the striking Mosaic Turtleback base from the historic Tavern Club in Cleveland. Selections from the December sale will be on view in Hong Kong during the fall, and further details on the 2013 sales will be forthcoming.



“The Geyers are the most fervent collectors of Tiffany I have ever met,” notes James Zemaitis, Senior Vice President of 20th Century Design. “They have spent thousands of hours scouring the most obscure corners of the American landscape looking for museum quality works, whether it’s a chandelier that was hanging in its original interior for 100 years and was sold at a small Midwestern estate sale, or the rarest of desk set accessories in the ‘Grapevine’ pattern which they found buried in the backroom inventory of one of the founding ladies of the Tiffany gallery market in the 1970s. It is a great honor to be selling choice examples from their collection in December and in 2013.”




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