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Poppy Inkstand

Manufacturer Tiffany Studios (American, 1902-1932)

DesignerAttributed to Clara Driscoll (American, 1861-1944)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1901

MediumGlass | Patinated bronze

DimensionsOverall: 3 in. (7.6 cm)

InscribedBottom: "28289 TIFFANY STUDIOS" with monogram. Inside cap, glass insert marked "GAT.64.52". Metal base marked "MAT.64.21".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.2686

On View

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

DescriptionMosaic inkstand with a bronze framework. A thin band of metal circles the base. Originating from the band and extending to the rim are three bronze trees with overlapping foliage at the top. Between the trees are numerous small glass mosaic tiles of green, yellow-gold streaked with dark brown, violet swirled with blue and olive-brown, turquoise swirled with fuschia and orange streaked with purple. The tiles have a multi-colored iridescence. Inside the inkstand and resting on the rim is an inkwell of pressed transparent yellow-gold favrile glass with a flared and scalloped rim in the shape of flower petals. The interior and the exterior of the inkwell have a multi-colored iridescence. A cap of pressed opaque blue favrile glass in the shape of a flower pistil fits into the inkwell. The stem of the cap has a blue-purple iridescence glass insert marked "GAT64.52". Similar to a piece in Koch, G-B-L, p. 90, fig. 100, second row, first on left.

Label TextDesign attributed to Clara Driscoll American (1861-1944) Tiffany Studios Corona, New York Poppy Inkstand, ca. 1901 Glass and bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2686 Exhibition History"Tiffany Girls: A New Light on Tiffany," Singer Laren Museum, Amsterdam, December 18, 2008 - August 30, 2009; Villa Struck, Munich, October 15, 2009 - January 17, 2010. "Women of the Chrysler: a 400-Year Celebration of the Arts," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., March 24 - July 18, 2010.Published ReferencesPaul E. Doros. _The Tiffany Collection from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_. Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum. 1977: pp. 149, 154; no. 219. An exact replica of this inkwell is in Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret Hofer, _A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls_ (New York: New York Historical Society, 2007), 74, fig. 37. ISBN: 978-1904832355