Design for interior fireplace wall
Fireplace mantels offered a place to display clocks, mirrors, books, vases, photographs, and other items that reflected an individual’s tastes. Magazines like Harper’s Bazar encouraged simplicity and grace when decorating fireplaces, as “overloading the shelf” could potentially “spoil” the arrangement. Here, Tiffany’s designers followed this trend by rendering two elegant golf candelabra and a blue glazed vase on a Tudor Revival mantel. Scrawled notes in the upper left corner of the drawing provide insight into the other materials proposed for this commission. “Burl walnut” may have been planned for the dark wood paneling, while a Japanese “blue fiber” was chosen to decorate the walls of the room.
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for interior fireplace wall
- Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
- Maker: Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (American, 1892–1902)
- Maker: or Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
- Date: 1892-1932
- Geography: Made in New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Watercolor, graphite, and ink on tissue mounted on board.
- Dimensions: 13 3/8 × 17 5/8 in. (34 × 44.8 cm)
Other (Design): 11 5/8 × 16 1/4 in. (29.5 × 41.3 cm)
Mat: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm) - Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.654.412
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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