Turtleback Tile Chandelier
Classification
lighting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Museum purchase through Pam and Tom Gerfen/RMW Acquisition Grant
Accession Number
2018-1-1
About this artwork
Two rows of amber-range iridescent glass "turtleback" medallions surrounded by bronze framewark and interspersed with smaller triangular pieces of glass, all surmounted by flattened onion-domed shaped crown, supporting a ring to which a chain is mounted.