Mushroom Night Lamp
Medium
Favrile glass
Dimensions
h. 32.4 cm · diameter of base 17 cm
Classification
Lamp
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Charles Maurer
Accession Number
2018.288
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
gender unknown
About this artwork
This small night lamp is made almost entirely of Louis Comfort Tiffany's signature Favrile glass. In the 1880s when Tiffany began collaborating with glass artists on new types of production, his aesthetic ambitions were realized in the development of Favrile glass, deliberately named to sound French, expensive, and “handmade.” Largely through Tiffany's marketing ability, Favrile glass became America’s greatest contribution to the Art Nouveau style. His works were exhibited at international expos...