Poppy Filigree Table Lamp (c.1902–10): Art, History and Details

Poppy Filigree Table Lamp (c.1902–10) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Clara Wolcott Driscoll (American, 1861–1944); Tiffany Studios (United States, New York, 1902–32).

The work and its context

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

In the 1870s a renewed emphasis on natural landscapes ushered in a generation of cottage gardeners who delighted in planting perennials in large quantities. Louis Comfort Tiffany was among those who championed the lush, sometimes wild-looking displays of varied floral species in the garden at his Long Island estate, Laurelton Hall. Tiffany 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 patterns for lamps and mosaics based on the colorful blooms of spring that became among the most sought after and commercially successful of Tiffany’s production.

Object facts

• Title: Poppy Filigree Table Lamp
• Date: c.1902–10
• Creator attribution: Clara Wolcott Driscoll (American, 1861–1944); Tiffany Studios (United States, New York, 1902–32)
• Culture: America, New York
• Type: Lamp
• Technique: Leaded glass, blown glass, brass, bronze
• Dimensions: height: 58.5 x 42 cm (23 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.); Shade diameter: 42 cm (16 9/16 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 2018.275

A detail from the museum

Brass filigree layered over and underneath the glass in the Poppy lamp helps define its blossoms and leaves.

Collection credit

Bequest of Charles Maurer

Further reading listed by the museum

• Harrison, Stephen. “Acquisitions 2018: Decorative Art and Design.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 10-12.

View the collection record

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