Studio: international art (17.1899)

American and French Applied Art

MOSAIC WORK DESIGNED BY LOUIS C. TIFFANY

(Copyright of Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co., New York)

which would give the im-
pression—it could, of course,
by no law of chance give
more—of the face of the
figure with which the work-
man was at that time deal-
ing. So with the drapery,
though here the task is
easier, for huge plates of
glass are specially prepared
for this class of design alone,
the plastic material being
taken while still hot and
twisted and worked with
pliers until it assumes a
corrugated surface suggest-
ing, even when viewed by
direct light, the waves and
folds of drapery. But the
question of principle still
remains an open one, and
from glass-workers upon this
side of the Atlantic Mr.
Tiffany may expect, and

evenly-coloured glass. This
is accomplished entirely by
selection and by the leaded
lines, as also by the super-
imposing of one piece of
glass over another. Never
has this principle, perhaps,
been carried to a greater
extent than in the working
out of these cartoons of
Mr. Brangwyn, to which
attention was drawn in last
month’s Studio. Here
even the faces are un-
touched by the painter’s
brush, and with an in-
genuity of selection, which
seems almost incredible,
have been arrived at by
what may be called “Ac-
cidentals.”

This means that the
workman with Mr. Brang-
wyn’s cartoon before him
must have hunted through
some hundreds if not thou-
sands of pieces of glass
before he found the one

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PLAQUE IN TIFFANY FAVRILE GLASS