Design for interior fireplace wall
Louis C. Tiffany|Tiffany Studios|Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company|Tiffany Glass Company
late 19th–early 20th century · Watercolor, graphite, and ink on tissue mounted on board. · The American Wing
Fireplace mantels offered a place to display clocks, mirrors, books, vases, photographs, and other items that reflected an individual’s tastes. Magazines like Harper’s Bazar encouraged simplicity and grace when decorating fireplaces, as “overloading the shelf” could potentially “spoil” the arrangement. Here, Tiffany’s designers followed this trend by rendering two elegant golf candelabra and a blue glazed vase on a Tudor Revival mantel. Scrawled notes in the upper left corner of the drawing provide insight into the other materials proposed for this commission. “Burl walnut” may have been planned for the dark wood paneling, while a Japanese “blue fiber” was chosen to decorate the walls of the room.
- Artist
- Louis C. Tiffany|Tiffany Studios|Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company|Tiffany Glass Company
- Date
- late 19th–early 20th century
- Medium
- Watercolor, graphite, and ink on tissue mounted on board.
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
