Pink Dogwood Chandelier, a Tiffany Studios chandelier in New-York Historical Society
This large 29″ floral cone, composed of intricate and colorful flower designs by Clara Driscoll, is one of Tiffany Studios’s most impressive Dogwood lamp shades. This stained glass lamp’s standard measurements are 29″ in width, 10″ in height, and 5″ across the aperture. Most of the original Tiffany cone-shaped lamps are strengthened by the addition of three to four reinforcement wires which, as in all flowered shades, run on top of leaded lines in a circuitous fashion. Though quite different from the previous Dogwood, this design also covers the entire cone without repetition.
Pink dogwood blossoms
The scalloped petals are predominantly white, with pink at their peripheries; this blush of color is accomplished by expert mottling and the judicious use of fractured glass. Though fabricated of flat glass segments, the edges of the older flowers appear to curl. Glowing yellow leaves, constructed of undulating glass with green and red striations, add a welcome warmth to the cool color palette, and a skein of greenish branches ties all the scattered elements together.
The background glass ranges from orange and light purple on one side to greenish-blue and true blue on the other. The branches enter the pattern at the lower beaded border and break through the horizontal row of orange-green glass; a similar row rings the aperture.
Cone-shaped Tiffany Lamps
A major disadvantage of the large cones is very well known – the difficulty of finding places to suspend them so that they may be viewed without distortion. For this reason, the author has suggested inverting these cones and hanging them from the ceiling. This, as already stated, will afford a properly angled view, no matter how extensive the design may be, from almost any part of the room. Properly hung and illuminated, the large cones are unbelievably effective.