A bronze and glass dragonfly lamp with the shade from New York’s Tiffany Studios (lot 179) more than doubled its catalogue estimate when knocked down for $32,000 at Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions two-day autumn series sale on May 28 and 29.
Last sold in 1994, the lamp was the highest seller at an auction where 66 per cent of the 464 lots on offer changed hands.
A large Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) bronze censer (lot 55) brought more than four times its...