Turtleback Tile Chandelier
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
- 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
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2018-1-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ee15fb75-2cdb-41fc-ad12-2699c3788bc4
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