Tiffany lamp
The table lamp with a shade of hundreds of pieces of coloured glass joined with copper and tin.
Tiffany Studios in New York made lamps with leaded shades from around 1895 to the 1930s. Many of the designs were drawn by Clara Driscoll and other women in the workshop.
The lamps have been copied in great numbers. Genuine examples have stamped shades and bases and high-quality glass; replicas often have plainer glass and thinner solder lines.
Materials: Opalescent glass, copper foil and solder, cast bronze
Manufacture: The glass pieces were cut to templates, edged with copper foil and soldered together over a mould; the base was cast in bronze.
The shade of glass pieces forming flowers or dragonflies, joined by dark solder lines.
Glass that changes colour in transmitted light.
The stamp TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK on the rim of the shade and under the base.