Favrile fabrique (Linenfold) Table Lamp
Artist: Tiffany Studios (American, 1902 - 1932)
Designer: Leslie Hayden Nash (1884 - 1958)
Designer: Henry O. Schmidt (1860 - 1943)
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:From 1913 to 1914, the independent designer Henry O. Schmidt (1860–1943) patented a new type of mold-cast glass lampshade panels for Tiffany Studios imitating the delicately pleated silk of a popular lamp shade style. Under the directorship of Leslie Hayden Nash, Tiffany Studios offered an expanded range of lampshades in this new favrile fabrique style (“favrile” was the name of Tiffany’s trademarked line of glass).
Retailing in 1913 for 115 silver dollars, the Linenfold lamp was more expensive than most of the company’s more familiar lamps with brightly colored stained glass shades. Tiffany Studios advertized these innovative lamps 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.”
Retailing in 1913 for 115 silver dollars, the Linenfold lamp was more expensive than most of the company’s more familiar lamps with brightly colored stained glass shades. Tiffany Studios advertized these innovative lamps 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.”
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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