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Tiffany lamps are some of the most expensive decorations on the market, and many people thought they were all created by Louis Comfort Tiffany. But Clara Driscoll designed this one for the Paris World's Fair of 1900.
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This is a detail of the dragonfly lamp's base. Driscoll is also responsible for the famous wisteria design. None of Tiffany's designers got name credit, but Tiffany clearly valued Driscoll. He took her to Europe, along with another designer, for an entire summer of sketching and painting.
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This lamp and the dragonfly lamp are part of an exhibit at the New York Historical Society which features Driscoll's work. Women who worked for Tiffany got equal pay, said curator Margi Hofer, but when they married, they had to leave the company. Driscoll had to leave in 1909.
"Clara even expressed frustration when her workers would leave because they got married," Hofer said. "That was the custom."
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The Metropolitan Museum in New York is exhibiting items from Tiffany's Long Island estate, Laurelton Hall. This is an example of favrile, a name he invented for his hand-blown glass.
"It's called lava glass, because it's meant to look a little like molten lava," curator of the exhibition Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, said.
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Laurelton Hall sat on property which spanned 600 acres, and Tiffany decorated his home extravagantly. Bunches of glass daffodils like these decorated the columns which held up his terrace. At his home, he threw Egyptian- and Roman-themed costume parties, and at one event guests were served peacock.
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In 1957, after Laurelton Hall burned down, some of Tiffany's stained glass windows were picked from the rubble. They, like this one, are now on display at the Metropolitan Museum.
