Collection Highlights
Memorial sample card
Date:
Object Number:
1947.490a
Medium:
Watercolor and hair on ivory
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Luce Center
Grape hanging shade
Object Number:
N84.60.1
Date:
ca. 1900-1906
Medium:
Glass, bronze
Dimensions:
Overall (shade height, diameter): 12 1/2 × 30 in. (31.8 × 76.2 cm)
Marks:
stamped: on metal tag inside shade: "TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK"
Description:
Leaded glass and bronze "Grape" hanging shade; 30" diameter twelve-sided cone-shaped shade with grape design repeated four times; trellis of "wood" slats rendered in grained and striated brown glass; yellow green background; clusters of red, blue and purple grapes rendered in textured and stippled glass.
Gallery Label:
This shade blends creativity and craftsmanship in depicting the gradual ripening of grapes on a vine. Beginning small and green, the grapes become larger and more purple as the ripen.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Egon Neustadt
Provenance:
Matthew Weissman, Cross Country Antiques, 1968
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
