Object Details
Producer
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853
Design Director
Louis Comfort Tiffany, (American, 1848–1933)
Description
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.
Credit Line
Museum purchase through Pam and Tom Gerfen/RMW Acquisition Grant
Date
ca. 1910
Accession Number
2018-1-1
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
lighting
Decorative Arts
Object Name
chandelier (hanging light)
Type
chandelier (hanging light)
Medium
glass, bronze
Dimensions
H x diam. (chain fully extended): 38.1 × 53.3 × 137.2 cm (15 × 21 × 54 in.)
H x diam. (chandelier only): 38.1 × 21 cm (15 in. × 8 1/4 in.)
produced in
New York, New York, USA
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_2018-1-1