Indian Basket Lamp (c. 1902–10): Art, History and Details

Indian Basket Lamp (c. 1902–10) 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:

An admirer of Native American art, Louis Comfort Tiffany amassed a personal collection of textiles, baskets, and pottery, from which he and his designers drew inspiration. He was particularly interested in the way basket weavers formed their patterns using geometric grids, a look he re-created in designs for lamps, such as the Indian Basket lamp.

Object facts

• Title: Indian Basket Lamp
• Date: c. 1902–10
• Creator attribution: Tiffany Studios (United States, New York, 1902–32)
• Culture: America, New York
• Type: Lamp
• Technique: Leaded glass, gilt bronze
• Dimensions: Diameter: 31.6 cm (12 7/16 in.); Overall: 43.5 cm (17 1/8 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 2018.276

A detail from the museum

This lamp features dichroic glass, which appears green in reflected light but glows amber when illuminated.

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.
• "King Louis". Antique Collecting 58, no. 7 (December/January 2023-24): 36-40.

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.