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Turtleback Tile Chandelier

Cooper Hewitt

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    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

    See more items in

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Product Design and Decorative Arts Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ee15fb75-2cdb-41fc-ad12-2699c3788bc4

    Record ID

    chndm_2018-1-1

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