THE TIFFANY GIRLS Decorative lamp, c. 1900 COBWEB LIBRARY LAMP In the production of lamps, Tiffany Studios employed scores of people, Glass, bronze Among the many beautiful Tiffany gallery x each with specialized skills and training. Louis Comfort Tiffany kept Emile Gallé, French, 1846–1904 lamps in the Morse collection, the Marks on glass: Gallé strict control over design and quality, ensuring that everything the Cobweb library lamp is likely the (MISC-029-69) studios created met his standards and taste. In the creation of Tiffany lamps, no rarest. Fewer than ten examples are TIFFANY LAMPS individual was more important than Clara Driscoll (1861–1944), who supervised Portable lamp, c. 1903–17 known to exist today. The lamp the Women’s Glass Cutting Department and is believed to have designed many and lighting Leaded glass, metal incorporates an extremely complex leaded-glass lamps for Tiffany. Driscoll’s staff, a group of female employees known leaded-glass shade on an elaborate Unique Art Glass & Metal Co., OBJECT GUIDE as the “Tiffany Girls,” worked in design, glass selection, and fabrication. Male Brooklyn, New York, c. 1896–1917 mosaic base, making it much more employees soldered pieces together and patinated the lead surfaces. Gift of Elizabeth Brown difficult to produce than the typical (GL-004-84) Tiffany lamp. At $500 in 1906, it Few designers did more to bring art into also sold for nearly four times the Decorative lamp, c. 1915 Desk lamp, after 1902 Portable lamp, c. 1910 the home than Louis Comfort Tiffany Shade No. 242, Arabian design, No. 349, Pony Wistaria design average lamp. The shade is composed Leaded glass, metal of flowers and eight spiderweb (1848–1933), and few of Tiffany’s incredibly varied green and opal, small Leaded glass, bronze Cincinnati Artistic medallions, each of differing Blown glass Marks on shade: TIFFANY Wrought Iron Works, products did more in this regard than his lamps. Marks on shade: L.C.T. Favrile STUDIOS / NEW YORK Cincinnati, Ohio, configuration and glass. Bronze Tiffany had been interested in lighting since Marks on base: L.C. Tiffany – Favrile Marks on base: TIFFANY 1894–c. 1990 branches form a canopy over the (55-005) STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 7805 Gift of Donald C. Douglass lamp’s mosaic base, a vessel for holding his days as a decorator, but the rapid adoption (69-008) (MET-119-81) fuel oil that is covered with clusters of of electricity in the late nineteenth and early 5) Right platform, objects on plinths white narcissus in full bloom. Featured twentieth centuries created an unprecedented opportunity to marry 6) Library lamp, c. 1900 Table Lamp, c. 1910–26 on the cover of the company’s 1904 Clockwise from back row left: No. 146, Cobweb design shade, No. L29, Vasekraft line, Funnel lamps catalog, the technology and beautiful design for a much larger group of consumers. mosaic floral base design, flambé glazed Cobweb lamp Library lamp, c. 1910 [oil lamp conversion] Glazed clay, leaded-glass inset Shade No. 1539, 22 in. Leaded glass, mosaic, bronze brilliantly fulfills Fulper Pottery Company, Louis Comfort In his 1904 catalog Tiffany Lamps, the booming market for electric Laburnum design, irregular (62-020) Flemington, New Jersey, 1909-35 edge, dome shape Tiffany’s vision Tiffany described his clever and lighting for the home. Some Marks: WE / FULPER and 1 richly colored lampshades as “pieces competed directly with Tiffany Standard No. 529, Roman 7) Other makers / 1 / 1 / patent pending U.S. / of transforming a design [Vasekraft logo] Fulper / 805 utilitarian object into of glass bound together with copper in the high-end luxury market, Leaded glass, bronze Left to right: (PO-024-84) a unique expression and welded together, producing others produced spinoffs of Tiffany Marks on shade: TIFFANY of art. the effect found in our floral and designs for the middle class by using STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 1539 Table lamp, c. 1910–28 Portable lamp, c. 1903–17 geometrical windows.” finished white metal in place of Marks on base: Tiffany Studios / Leaded glass, brass, Leaded glass, metal NEW YORK / 529 copper From the 1890s on, world bronze for bases and by limiting the Unique Art Glass & options in design and glass selection (66-009) Roycroft, East Aurora, Metal Co., Brooklyn, expositions boldly celebrated New York, 1894–1938 New York, c. 1896–1917 electrified light, giving it the to keep costs down. Library lamp, c. 1901 Designer: Dard Hunter, (GL-092-68) attention formerly reserved for This exhibition includes No. 342, Wistaria design lamp 1883–1966 master furniture or fine art. Other examples of lamps and lighting and shade, large (GL-016-80) Leaded glass, bronze design and production firms fixtures designed by Louis Comfort Designer: Clara Driscoll, 1861–1944 Portable lamp, c. 1906–11 besides Tiffany vied for a stake in Tiffany or one of his artists and Marks on shade: TIFFANY Flaming Sword design 445 north park avenue, made under the name of one of his STUDIOS / NEW YORK Leaded glass, bronze winter park, florida 32789 companies. It also includes examples Marks on base: [conjoined TGDco] / Duffner & Kimberly Company, 407-645-5311 Above: Pond Lily decorative lamp, after by other makers of the era. TIFFANY STUDIOS / NEW YORK New York City, 1906–11 www.morsemuseum.org 1902. Blown glass, bronze; Tiffany Studios, (70-020) (70-010) New York City, 1902–32 (74-003). Tiffany Lamps and Lighting ©2015 Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation, Inc. All makers and designers are American 2) Center platform Library lamp, c. 1905 Desk lamp, after 1902 Electric bracket, c. 1895 TIFFANY LAMP SCREENS unless otherwise noted. Shade No. 1505, 22 in. No. 349, Pony Wistaria design Molded turtleback glass, bronze Back row, left to right: Peony design, Leaded glass, bronze Lamp screens were among the fancy Marks: D739 1) Left platform Holden shape Marks on shade: TIFFANY goods Tiffany Studios offered for (94-003) Floor standard, c. 1902 Standard No. 367, STUDIOS / NEW YORK sale with its lamps. These decorative Left to right: Shade No. 1521, O’Brien design, Marks on base: TIFFANY screens were attached to a large lamp’s Lamp screen, c. 1920 Bamboo design, cushion base, large STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 1001 finial by chain and suspended below Moth design, Library lamp, c. 1910 dome shape Leaded glass, bronze (79-536) the shade, shielding the person using Leaded glass, bronze Shade No. 1486, 18 Leaded glass, bronze Marks on shade: TIFFANY the lamp from its bare light bulbs. (2001-060) in. Gentian Blossom Marks on base: STUDIOS / NEW YORK Reading lamp, These leaded-glass screens were design, conventional TIFFANY STUDIOS / Marks on base: TIFFANY after 1902 available in the shapes of the winged 4) Right platform, floor objects jeweled, flat NEW YORK STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 6006 Shade No. 1424, insects or figures that appropriately Standard No. 371, (64-013) (69-016) plain, Heavy Ribs Clockwise from back row left: might hover around Tiffany’s garden Indian Hookah design design (“Spider Leaded glass, bronze Reading lamp, c. 1905 Library lamp, c. 1910 and Web”) of nature-themed lamps. Reading lamp, c. 1915 Marks on shade: TIFFANY Shade No. 1453, 16 in. Tulip design, Shade No. 1447, Standard No. 337, Shade No. 1928, 10 in. STUDIOS / NEW YORK dome shape Black-eyed Susan Mushroom design, small Favrile-Fabrique glass, (69-013) Standard No. 181, Greek design, design, dome shape Leaded glass, bronze 3) Right platform, hanging lamps Abalone desk set large [oil lamp conversion] Standard No. 357, Marks on shade: TIFFANY and objects Standard No. 604, Decorative lamp, after 1900 Leaded glass, bronze Cushion base, STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 1424 inlaid abalone, Pond lily design, ball shape Marks on shade: TIFFANY Leaf design Marks on base: TIFFANY Left to right: gold finish Leaded glass STUDIOS / NEW YORK Leaded glass, bronze STUDIOS / 337 Molded glass, bronze, abalone shell (1999-113) Marks on base: [conjoined TGDco] Marks on base: TIFFANY (66-029) Hanging shade, Marks on shade: 1928 / TIFFANY / TIFFANY STUDIOS / NEW STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 6839 after 1900 STUDIOS / NEW YORK YORK/ 1453 (70-028) Library lamp, c. 1905 No. 605, 28 in. Marks on base: 604 / TIFFANY (68-001) Shade No. 1495, 20 in. Dragonfly & Dogwood design, STUDIOS / NEW YORK Floor lamp, after 1902 Water design, amber, cone shape straight sides, (68-003:17) Shades No. 104, Drop Cluster Standard No. 360, Conventional circular shape Blossoms design design, cushion base Leaded glass, bronze Candlestick lamp, c. 1900 Standard No. 685, Pond Lily design, Leaded glass, bronze Marks: TIFFANY STUDIOS One light, four legged base 12 lights Designer: Clara Driscoll, 1861–1944 NEW YORK Blown glass, bronze (68-008) AWARD-WINNING ELECTRIC LAMPS Blown glass, bronze Marks on shade: TIFFANY Marks on shade: L.C.T Marks on shades: L.C.T. STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 1495-36 Marks on base: 5635 / TIFFANY At the 1902 Prima Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Marks on base: TIFFANY Marks on base: TIFFANY Lamp screen, c. 1904 STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 15 Decorativa Moderna, in Turin, Italy, Tiffany Studios was STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 685 STUDIOS / NEW YORK / 360 No. 924, Butterfly design Gift of Mrs. Beatrice Craig awarded a grand prize for two lamps that transformed (70-013) (66-005) Leaded glass, bronze (89-001) standard lamp forms into electrified sculptures from (70-029) nature: the Pond Lily and Wistaria lamps. This ambitious Front row, left to right: Decorative lamp, after 1902 Balanced lamp, c. 1902 decorative arts exposition put an emphasis on the aesthetic Shades No. 104, Drop Cluster Four-sided hanging lantern, after 1902 Shade No. S207, Shell design, renewal of everyday objects. Many of Tiffany’s early Library lamp, after 1902 Blossoms design Molded turtleback glass, bronze dome shape (58-019) lighting designs were oil lamps that required a base that Shade No.