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Tea screen
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933)
Tiffany & Company (American, established 1853)
ca. 1905
- Medium
- Favrile glass, oxidized bronze
- Classification
- Tea screen
- Dimensions
- H x W (d: overall): 19.3 x 30.7 cm (7 5/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- New York
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Screen consists of three vertically rectangular panels of marbleized glass, each panel framed with narrow copper edging oxidized to green and orange-red tones with two small ball feet at each end. The panels are hinged together by means of wire at juncture of feet and screen. Glass marbleized in tones of blue, yellow, green and red.
