Woodbine Table Lamp (c. 1900): Art, History and Details

Woodbine Table Lamp (c. 1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Clara Wolcott Driscoll (American, 1861–1944); Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902); 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: Woodbine Table Lamp
• Date: c. 1900
• Creator attribution: Clara Wolcott Driscoll (American, 1861–1944); Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902); Tiffany Studios (United States, New York, 1902–32)
• Culture: America, New York
• Type: Lamp
• Technique: Leaded glass, bronze
• Dimensions: height: 55.5 cm (21 7/8 in.); Shade diameter: 40.5 cm (15 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 2018.283

A detail from the museum

This shade features confetti glass, a technique in which colored shards are dropped into the molten mixture to resemble trapped pieces of paper or confetti.

Collection credit

Bequest of Charles Maurer

Further reading listed by the museum

• Bifano, Wayne Thomas, and Timothy Lachina. The Wade Chapel: A Story of Art, Spirit, and Family. Cleveland, Ohio: Lake View Cemetery Association, 2019.

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.