For #MosaicMonday during #DragonflyWeek:

Dragonfly tea stand, c. 1901

Glass mosaic, diameter 7 1/4 in. Designed by Clara Driscoll (USA, 1861–1944) for Louis Comfort Tiffany (USA, 1848-1933). The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

For #WorldArtNouveauDay on #MosaicMonday:

1. Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933)

“#Parakeets & #Goldfish Bowl” Window, c.1893

Leaded stained & opalescent glass; bronze chain

Framed (with molding): 79 3/4 x 44 x 2 1/4 in.

2. John La Farge (American, 1835-1910)

“Butterflies & Foliage” Window, 1889 Leaded stained & opalescent glass

Overall (with original wood frame): (71 1/2 x 32 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)

Framed (w/metal outer frame): (73 x 33 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)

On display at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

For ##NationalPeacockDay + #MosaicMonday:

Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933)

Peacock Mosaic from the entrance hall of the Henry O. Havemeyer house, NY, 1890-1

favrile glass, pottery, plaster

52 x 64 x 4 in (132.08 x 162.56 x 10.16 cm)

Now in the UMMA collection.

For #BatAppreciationWeek + #BeKindToSpidersWeek, here is a 1905 Tiffany Studios lamp that combines the spiderweb shade + bat base!

Tiffany Studios (American, 1902–1932), Corona, New York Lamp with “Heavy Ribs” Shade and “Bat” Base, Spiderweb Shade on a Mosaic Bat Base, "Spider" Table Lamp with "Bat" Base c. 1905 favrile glass, leaded glass, and bronze 48.9 × 38.1 × 38.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago

Louis Comfort Tiffany was born #OTD (18 Feb 1848 – 17 Jan 1933).

Here is his extraordinary Art Nouveau dragonfly and dandelion hair ornament:

Hair ornament, c. 1904 Gold, silver, platinum, black opals, boulder opals, demantoid garnets, rubies, and enamel H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"This hair ornament is one of the most remarkable works by Louis C. Tiffany, an artist who worked in virtually every media and is especially known for his leaded-glass windows and floral lampshades. Tiffany embarked on the design and fabrication of artistic jewelry just after the turn of the century and debuted it at the Pan-American Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. His earliest works are extraordinary evocations of nature, the artist’s muse throughout his long and productive career. Here, capturing an ephemeral moment, two dragonflies alight on dandelion seed balls, one of which is partially blown away. Tiffany found beauty in one of the most common plants, seen not at the height of bloom but in a natural fading state, just before the seeds are scattered. The dragonflies feature shimmering black opals along their backs and dazzling pink opals as the heads, their coloristic properties evoking Tiffany’s famed iridescent glass. Their delicate, gossamer-like filigree wings were likely intended to have slight movement—en tremblant—when the wearer turned her head. The hair ornament was originally owned by and descended in the family of Louisine Havemeyer, one of Tiffany's most ardent patrons and a noted avant-garde collector of modern French painting."