The Wisteria table lamp is a leaded-glass lamp first produced by Tiffany Studios in 1901, its shade built from a great number of individually cut and fitted pieces of colored glass arranged to suggest cascading wisteria blossoms hanging from a bronze, tree-like base, in the Art Nouveau taste for organic, plant-derived form. Its design is credited chiefly to Clara Driscoll, head of Tiffany Studios' Women's Glass Cutters Department, working with Louis Comfort Tiffany's guidance, and it drew on Tiffany's interest in Japanese art, in which wisteria carried associations of long life and tenderness. Priced at four hundred dollars, a large sum at the time, it nonetheless became one of the firm's best-selling models and is remembered today as one of the most technically demanding and sought-after of all Tiffany lamp designs.
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MediumLeaded glass lampshade assembled by the copper-foil technique, on a bronze base 1 Connections
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The Tiffany glass in the lampshades is put together with the copper-foil technique instead of lead came, the classic technique for stained glass windows.
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