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Design for Mosaic Mantel Facing in residence of Mrs. Louis G. Kaufman, Short Hills, New Jersey,
ca. 1911–15
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933)
American
Tiffany Studios (1902–1938)
Watercolor and pencil, 13 1/4 x 17 1/8 in. (33.7 x 43.5 cm)
Inscriptions: (Center) Mosaic Mantel Facing/Res. of Mrs. Louis
G. Kaufman/Short Hills, New Jersey; (lower left) Tiffany Studios/New
York City; (lower right) Approved by (but unsigned)/Scale
1 1/2 = 1'0" (right of image) Black marble/Hearth
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967 (67.654.15)
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The Tiffany Studios provided a scheme for the design of the mantel for the country house of
Mrs. Louis G. Kaufman in Short Hills, New Jersey. It featured a carved molding in the fashionable
Chinese taste, with the mantel faced in deep blue-purple tiles molded in a Chinese fretwork pattern.
The tiles are interspersed with an arrangement of larger ones, the rainbow hues of which in the drawing
suggest the colorful iridescence of Tiffany's Favrile glass, which he developed in the mid-1890s.
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