Suggestion for 38" Hanging Shade/ Laburnum Design/ Marshall Field and Co.
The laburnum, a poisonous tree native to Europe that bears dense clusters of bright yellow flowers in the spring, was the inspiration for the decoration of this lamp. The Chicago department store Marshall Field and Company commissioned a monumental hanging “Laburnum” shade, twenty-eight inches in diameter, either to decorate the store or to sell in its furnishings department. Marshall Field frequently patronized Tiffany Studios for both purposes: to obtain glass mosaics and skylights for its building and to procure leaded-glass lampshades for sale in its store.
Artwork Details
- Title: Suggestion for 38" Hanging Shade/ Laburnum Design/ Marshall Field and Co.
- Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
- Maker: Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
- Date: 1907–10
- Geography: Made in New York, United States; Country of Origin USA
- Culture: American
- Medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions: 11 15/16 × 8 7/16 in. (30.4 × 21.4 cm)
Mat: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Framed (AW B): 21 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (54 × 41.3 cm) - Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.655.6
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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