New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Electric Lamp

Manufacturer Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces (American, 1920-1924)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1922-1925

MediumLeaded glass and bronze

DimensionsOverall: 22 x 13 1/4 in. (55.9 x 33.7 cm)

InscribedIncised on bottom of lamp: "Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces, Inc./L/755" with the L in script within a circle. Incised on attached rectangular metal tab: "Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces, Inc./L/852" with the L in script and within a circle.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number86.135

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-7, Case 41

DescriptionTable lamp and shade. LAMP: Bronze lamp with a green patina. Shaped five-prong foot, each with three graduated sized enamel decorations. Pagoda-shaped finial topped with a gold iridescent textured ball. SHADE: Matching two stepped straight sides decorated with two bands of alternating rectangle and square copper meshed enameled decoration on each of the steps.

Label TextTiffany Furnaces Corona, New York Electric Lamp, ca. 1920-25 Bronze, copper, copper mesh with green enamel, glass ball finial Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 86.135 Although the shade of this late Tiffany lamp appears to be set with glass panes, the "panes" actually consist of enamel on copper wire mesh. Published ReferencesR. Koch, LOUIS C. TIFFANY'S GLASS--BRONZES--LAMPS, pg. 113, ill. photo 53 (right side), c. 1924.