Thermometer

Designed by Louis C. Tiffany American
 Tiffany Studios

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

This cast and gilt bronze thermometer, with red polychrome rubbed into its recesses, would have been at home on a desk in a library. Each item in the "Bookmark" desk set was designed around the colophon of a notable printer in history. Tiffany used this subject in the wall and mantel decoration for the New York City library of his friend Robert W. de Forest and introduced it as an ornamental motif in the decorations his firm supplied for the Chicago Public Library in 1897.

Thermometer, Designed by Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Gilt bronze, American

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Thermometer, Designed by Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Gilt bronze, American
Thermometer, Designed by Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Gilt bronze, American
Thermometer, Designed by Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Gilt bronze, American
Thermometer, Designed by Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Gilt bronze, American

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