Straight-stem Tiffany Daffodil lamp makes reported record US$131,150 at Cottone

What happened

Cottone Auctions in Geneseo, New York, took US$1.9m across two sessions on 23 and 24 September 2026, according to Antiques and The Arts Weekly. Prices in the report include the buyer's premium (the auction house's fee added to the hammer price, the winning bid), as reported by the auction house.

One session was a 220-lot single-owner sale (one collector's holdings sold together) of American Arts and Crafts from the collection of Dr Bruce A. Austin of Pittsford, New York, which made US$700,000. The other offered 277 lots from estates and private collections and made nearly US$1.2m.

A circa 1910 Tiffany Studios Daffodil table lamp made US$131,150 including buyer's premium, well above its estimate of US$60,000–80,000. The publication described the price as a world auction record for the straight-stem version of the model.

It said the result surpassed the US$125,000 paid for the same model at Sotheby's in 2019. The report did not say whether that earlier figure included fees, so the two prices may not be on the same basis.

The record claim rests on Antiques and The Arts Weekly alone, and we could not check it against a second source.

Cottone's terms and conditions, which are undated, set its buyer's premium at 22 per cent of the hammer price, regardless of payment method. The report did not give the lamp's hammer price.

Other results in the report included a Dirk van Erp hand-hammered copper and mica table lamp at US$16,470. Grueby Pottery, described as the heart of the Austin collection, made US$156,709 across 28 lots. An Edward F. McCartan bronze of Pan sold for US$61,000, three Andy Warhol screenprints brought US$94,550 together, and three George Nakashima pieces brought US$58,255 together.

Cottone's next sale is on 28–29 October.