Rare Tiffany Studios Bronze and Leaded Glass Desk Lamp

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Rare Tiffany Studios Bronze and Leaded Glass Desk Lamp

About the Item

The cylindrical shade with horizontal panels of mottled pale green, white and gold glass symmetrically leaded, pivoting on a harp form bronze support and gadrooned circular base. Impressed Tiffany Studios New York Provenance: The John L.Severance Collection. Severance, John Long (8 May 1863-16 Jan. 1936), industrialist, was born in Cleveland to Louis Henry and Fannie Benedict Severance. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1885 and returned to Cleveland to work for Standard Oil Co. (OHIO) In 1892 Severance left Standard Oil to work with the Cleveland Linseed Oil Co., a paint and varnish industry. In 1899 he was instrumental in founding American Linseed Co., into which Cleveland Linseed was merged. In 1901 he organized and became president of Colonial Salt Co., and about the same time helped form Linde Air Prods. His other business connections included serving as chairman of the board of Cleveland Arcade Co. and Youngstown Steel Door Co., and as director of Cleveland Trust Co. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Philanthropically, he was president of the Cleveland Museum Of Art And Musical Arts Assn. Besides being a liberal benefactor to the art museum during his life, at his death he left it a collection valued at over $3 million. In 1929 he gave the city $1.5 million to build a concert hall for the Cleveland Orchestra; in 1930 increasing his donation to $2.5 million in memory of his wife. Severance was an initial member of the Cleveland Community Fund; a trustee of Oberlin College, Western Reserve University, and Nanking University in China. He sponsored Severance Medical School & Hospital at Seoul, Korea, an institution founded by his father. Severance married Elizabeth Huntington DeWitt in 1891; she died in 1929. They had no children. Severance died in Cleveland and is buried in Lake View Cemetary.

Creator:
Tiffany Studios (Maker)
Dimensions:
Height: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Width: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)Depth: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)
Style:
Art Nouveau (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Art Glass,Bronze
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1910-1919
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1910
Condition:
Seller Location:
Cleveland, OH
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU115923840832

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The hand-crafted kerosene and early electric lighting fixtures created at Tiffany Studios now rank among the most coveted decorative objects in the world. Tiffany designs of any kind are emblematic of taste and craftsmanship, and Tiffany glass refers to far more than stained-glass windows and decorative glass objects. The iconic multimedia manufactory’s offerings include stained-glass floor lamps, chandeliers and enameled metal vases. The most recognizable and prized of its works are antique Tiffany Studios table lamps.

The name Tiffany generally prompts thoughts of two things: splendid gifts in robin’s-egg blue boxes and exquisite stained glass. In 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany founded the former — Tiffany & Co., one of America’s most prominent purveyors of luxury goods — while his son, Louis Comfort Tiffany, is responsible for exemplars of the latter.

Louis was undoubtedly the most influential and accomplished American decorative artist in the decades that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rather than join the family business, he studied painting with several teachers, notably the scenic painter Samuel Colman, while spending long periods touring Europe and North Africa. Though he painted his entire career, visits to continental churches sparked a passionate interest in stained glass. Tiffany began experimenting with the material and in 1875 opened a glass factory-cum-laboratory in Corona, Queens — the core of what eventually became Tiffany Studios.

In his glass designs, Tiffany embraced the emerging Art Nouveau movement and its sinuous, naturalistic forms and motifs. By 1902, along with glass, Tiffany was designing stained-glass lamps and chandeliers as well as enameled metal vases, boxes and bowls, and items such as desk sets and candlesticks. Today such pieces epitomize the rich aesthetics of their era.

The lion’s share of credit for Tiffany Studios table lamps and other fixtures has gone to Louis. However, it was actually Clara Driscoll (1861–1944), an Ohio native and head of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department for 17 years, who was the genius behind the Tiffany lamps that are most avidly sought by today’s collectors. A permanent gallery of Tiffany lamps at the New-York Historical Society celebrates the anonymous women behind the desirable fixtures.

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