Rarest Of Tiffany Lamps For Sale

What is being called the "Holy Grail of Tiffany lamps", a sublime stained-glass shade of lilies in soft hues of pink and green, cascading down in an oblong bell to a bronze base molded to resemble the delicate pads in the water is being offered for sale by the Macklowe Gallery in New York for a mere $3.5 million.

Benjamin Macklowe, of the Macklowe Gallery, said his firm waited for this year's Winter Antiques show to reveal the lamp, which would have cost $400 in 1906 (about a year's pay for a well-employed person.) There's only one left in the world for sale -- the other seven variations are in museums or private collections

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