Chandelier

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Chandelier

c. 1905

Made by Tiffany Studios, Corona, New York (1902–1938)

This chandelier was purchased in about 1905 from Tiffany Studios by Guy Kent Fullagar—the treasurer for the company’s board of directors—for his summer home in Dunkirk, New York. The grape trellis pattern probably was created by Clara Driscoll, the company’s principal designer of leaded-glass shades. Following Louis Comfort Tiffany’s dictum “Nature is always beautiful,” Driscoll’s compositions featured dramatic juxtapositions of plant forms against contrasting backgrounds. She chose different colors and textures of glass to create the brilliant greens, reds, blues, and purples of the foliage and ripe fruit, set off against a lightwood trellis mottled by the oranges and yellows of a late afternoon summer sky.

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Object Details

Title:

Chandelier

Date:

c. 1905

Artist:

Made by Tiffany Studios, Corona, New York (1902–1938)

Medium:

Leaded glass, patinated bronze

Dimensions:

Shade: 15 1/4 × 29 3/4 inches (38.7 × 75.6 cm) Armature: 5 feet (152.4 cm)

Classification:

Lighting

Credit Line:

Gift of the Shipley Family, 2012

Accession Number:

2012-168-1a--n

Geography:

Made in Corona, New York, New York, United States, North and Central America

Context:

Period: Progressive Era

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