# Nautilus Reading Lamp

- By: Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902)
- Date: c. 1899–1902
- Medium: bronze, leaded glass
- Classification: Metalwork
- Dimensions: Overall: 34.5 x 21.3 x 13.4 cm (13 9/16 x 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
- Culture: America, early 20th Century
- Credit line: Bequest of Virginia Hubbell
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.298)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.298/1997.298_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Benjamin Hubbell, the architect of the Cleveland Museum of Art, acquired this vase from Louis Comfort Tiffany, with whom he collaborated on various projects. The shape of the nautilus shell provides the perfect space to conceal a light bulb, the newest form of technology at the time. As a result, this lamp was a critical success and sold both in this original form and with the later alteration of a bronze mermaid for the stand and an actual nautilus shell for the shade.