I'm reading a book entitled "Clara and Mr. Tiffany". The book is about Clara Driscoll who designed and made Tiffany lampshades and windows in the 1800's. As a working woman during that time, she and the ladies in her department, were subject to ridicule by the men who also worked for Tiffany.
If a women got married during her employment, she was terminated immediately. Women's rights were not alive and well during Mrs. Driscoll's (she was a widow) time. The company men had a union that they joined, but women employees were excluded.
Mrs. Driscoll's department was responsible for many of the beautiful Tiffany lamps and large windows that graced the houses of the very rich.
Mrs. Driscoll designed and her department made beautiful lamps. Her lamps had either irregular upper or lower borders. The flowers group followed a nature, or botanical, design using flowers, dragonflies, spiders with webs, butterflies, and peacock feathers.
Here is an example of a reproduction of the original dragonfly lamp:
The Holy City (1905) – St. John's vision on the isle of Patmos, one of eleven Tiffany windows at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. It has 58 panels and is thought to be one of the largest Tiffany Studios windows
The women employees of Tiffany did not, obviously, earn as much as the male workers. And for the most part the male employees didn't have the "eye" to find the right colors to use on the lamps and windows.
I checked the internet and there are original lamps for sale. Here is an example of one lamp, which is on sale!!! A Meyda Tiffany Original Tiffany Acorn w/Tobacco Leaf Table Lamp is on sale for only $41,500.00. At that price you'd have to have that lamp listed as scheduled property on your homeowners insurance policy!
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