Design for a niche with urn
Throughout his career as an interior designer, Tiffany favored Near Eastern motifs, often creating fantastic interiors evoking Morocco and other far-flung locations for himself and his clients. Although much of the memorial art designed by the Ecclesiastical Department was traditional, this unusual design for an urn set into a niche displays Tiffany’s enduring love of the exotic. Rendered in jewel-like blues and violets, the arched niche is surrounded by a diamond and lozenge border, and its segmented ceiling includes a pattern suggesting Arabic script. The lattice-style wall recalls screens in Islamic homes and mosques, further heightening the romantic mood of this proposed mausoleum niche.
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for a niche with urn
- Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
- Maker: Possibly Tiffany Glass Company (1885–92)
- Maker: Possibly Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (American, 1892–1902)
- Maker: Possibly Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
- Date: late 19th–early 20th century
- Geography: Made in New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Graphite, gouache, watercolor, and black pen on splatter painted buff paper
- Dimensions: 29 in. × 20 1/2 in. (73.7 × 52.1 cm)
Other (Design): 19 1/16 × 18 3/4 in. (48.4 × 47.6 cm)
Mat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm) - Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.654.30
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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