Date : approx. between 1905 and 1915
Material : Mosaic
Acquisition : Gift of Lillian Nassau and of Mrs L. Groves Geer (1976)
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American Art
Accessory of architecture (Mosaïque)
Area related
New York City (USA)
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This serene glass mosaic landscape remained in a crate for almost forty years - from the time it was auctioned in 1938, the year the Tiffany Studios at West Twenty-third Street closed, until it was installed in the American Wing Courtyard. It was among the decorations that had graced the Tiffany showroom. Tiffany's interest in mosaic dates to the 1880s, when he experimented with iridescent glass and transparent tesserae backed with metal leaf. He used the medium to spendid effect in the interiors of the New York home of Louisine and H. O. Havemayer, completed in 1892. The culmination of this interest was the vast Dream Garden, a mosaic Tiffany created in 1915, after the designs of Maxfielf Parish, for Edward Bok at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia.
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