Autumn Leaf Globe Table Lamp (c. 1905–10): Art, History and Details

Autumn Leaf Globe Table Lamp (c. 1905–10) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Tiffany Studios (United States, New York, 1902–32).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Louis Comfort Tiffany was among those who championed lush, sometimes wild-looking displays of varied species in the garden at his Long Island estate, Laurelton Hall. He encouraged his designers to take inspiration from his garden by shipping fresh cuttings almost weekly to his studios. Ohio native Clara Wolcott Driscoll and her team of female designers created floral and leafy patterns for lamps and mosaics that became among the most sought after and commercially successful of Tiffany’s production.

Object facts

• Title: Autumn Leaf Globe Table Lamp
• Date: c. 1905–10
• Creator attribution: Tiffany Studios (United States, New York, 1902–32)
• Culture: America, New York
• Type: Lamp
• Technique: Leaded glass, bronze
• Dimensions: Diameter: 27.7 cm (10 7/8 in.); Overall: 79.4 cm (31 1/4 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 2018.282

A detail from the museum

The globe-shaped shade on this lamp was also sold as a hanging ceiling pendant.

Collection credit

Bequest of Charles Maurer

Further reading listed by the museum

• Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.