Favrile fabrique (Linenfold) Table Lamp
Artist: Tiffany Studios (American, 1902 - 1932)
Manufacturer: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933)
Date: 1913-1914
Dimensions:
Overall: H: 27 in.; Dia.: 18 in.
Medium: Leaded glass and bronze
Place of Origin: United States
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given in memory of William Granger Souder, Sr., with love from his wife Victoria Majure Souder and the Souder, Louis, and von Weise families
Object number: 2012.136
Label Text:Like other lighting retailers in New York, Tiffany Studios offered table lamps with a choice of traditional parchment and pleated silk shades. From1913 to 1914, the independent designer Henry O. Schmidt patented a new type of mold-cast glass lampshade panels for Tiffany Studios imitating delicately pleated silk. Under the directorship of Leslie Hayden Nash, Tiffany Studios offered an expanded range of lampshades in this new favrile fabrique style. The gilded bronze lamp base (no. 587), with its raised polygonal fields that fore-shadows Tiffany’s turtleback designs in glass, and its large shade composed of glass panels in a leaded framework (no. 1927) retailed in 1913 for the substantial sum of 115 silver dollars. Such innovative lamps were advertized as suitable wedding gifts for the modern bride:
“The Fabrique Shades are recent creations, which have attracted great attention. The Glass resembles the texture and appearance of silk without disadvantages of getting out of shape, soiling, or fading.”
“The Fabrique Shades are recent creations, which have attracted great attention. The Glass resembles the texture and appearance of silk without disadvantages of getting out of shape, soiling, or fading.”
DescriptionA Tiffany Studios leaded glass and bronze lamp consisting of a bronze shade with gold opaque glass “linenfold” panels on a gilded mock turtleback bronze table base. The lamp has an original bronze leaded glass and bronze heat cap in matching finish.
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