Artist: Louis Comfort Tiffany
Date: 1901
Size: 74 x 52 cm
Technique: Watercolor
Throughout his career as an interior designer, Tiffany favored Near Eastern motifs, often creating fantastic interiors evoking Morocco and other far-flung locations for himself and his clients. Although much of the memorial art designed by the Ecclesiastical Department was traditional, this unusual design for an urn set into a niche displays Tiffany’s enduring love of the exotic. Rendered in jewel-like blues and violets, the arched niche is surrounded by a diamond and lozenge border, and its segmented ceiling includes a pattern suggesting Arabic script. The lattice-style wall recalls screens in Islamic homes and mosques, further heightening the romantic mood of this proposed mausoleum niche.
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