Tiffany Magnolias and Irises Scented Candle

DESCRIPTION

Relax amid the warm scent of currant and cassis with the Museum’s Magnolias and Irises Scented Candle. Its elegant design is based on an original Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848– 1933) Favrile glass window depicting an embankment of irises idly situated beneath flowering magnolia trees. Magnificent purple hills are set in the background with a central meandering stream, possibly emblematic of the river of life. This piece exemplifies Tiffany’s lifelong fascination with light, color, and nature.

Glass candleholder, with decal. Currant and cassis scented candle. Soy and paraffin blend. 3 1/4'' x 3'' diam.

ART HISTORY

A master of many media, Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933) was one of America’s most noted decorative artists at the turn of the twentieth century. Son of the founder of the silver and jewelry firm Tiffany & Co. of New York, Louis Tiffany began his career as a painter but moved quickly to interior decoration and leaded-glass windows, creating revolutionary types of opalescent glass that radiated especially deep, vibrant hues. Using variations in color and thickness of glass, he achieved pictorial effects of unsurpassed subtlety and beauty. In the early 1890s, Tiffany developed a method of blending different colors together in glass while it was in a molten state, thus achieving subtle effects of shading and texture. He called this type of glass, which was often noted for its iridescence, Favrile glass (from fabrile, and Old English word meaning “hand-wrought”).