Favrile fabrique (Linenfold) Table Lamp

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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)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1913-1914

DimensionsOverall: H: 27 in.; Dia.: 18 in.

MediumLeaded glass and bronze

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased 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

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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.

Label TextFrom 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.”Published Referencescf. Treasures of Louis C. Tiffany from the Garden Museum, Japan. Michaan’s Auctions, Alameda, CA, Saturday, November 17, 2012, lot 156

Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 Lights, 1879-1959. Taschen Verlag, pp. 162-163

Alistair Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany, the Garden Museum Collection, p. 315

Tiffany Studios: Lamps and Desk Sets, Favrile Glass, Furniture, Oriental Rugs, Undated and unpaginated firm’s brochure.