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Poppy

Object Name"Poppy" Inkstand

Artistic Director Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848 - 1933)

Designer Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll (American, 1861-1944)

Manufacturer Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (1892-1902)

Manufacturer(glass, bronze) Stourbridge Glass Company (1893-1902)

Made FromBronze, Favrile Glass Tesserae, Glass

Dateabout 1901

TechniqueInlaid, pressed, cast

SizeOverall H: 7.3 cm, Diam (max): 10.4 cm

Accession Number2014.4.79

Credit LinePurchased in part with funds from the F. M. Kirby Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Tiffany's Glass Mosaics

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Desk accessories were popular and could be purchased individually or as a matching set. The retail price of Tiffany’s desk accessories underscores their luxury status. This mosaic inkstand was a costly $30. The inkstand in the Etched Metal & Glass pattern was a more “affordable” option at $10. By comparison, the 1906 Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog advertised a “Common Sense Inkwell” for just $0.07.

Place Made

United States, NY, Corona

Physical Description"Poppy" Inkstand. Favrile glass tesserae; orange and blue pressed glass; bronze. Three-piece inkstand with a bronze framework featuring three sections of poppy foliage extending upwards from the base to the rim. Variegated Favrile glass tesserae inlaid within each section. The inkstand supports a bright orange pressed glass inkwell with a flared and scalloped rim in the shape of a poppy flower. The inkwell cap, shaped like the pistil of the poppy flower, is made of pressed Favrile blue glass.
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