Physical Qualities
Gilt wood and plaster with applied red and green glass jewels; blue and gold cast glass iridescent tiles, 48 1/8 × 74 3/4 × 12 1/4 in. (122.2 × 189.9 × 31.1 cm.). Tile inset: 39 1/4 × 41 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (99.7 × 106 × 3.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts Acquisitions Endowment established by the Friends of the American Wing, and Middendorf Foundation Fund; and purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of R. Elisabeth Arens and Adelaide Arens Morawetz, from the Estate of Henry Arens; Bequest of Charles A. Conklin III; Gift of Saidie A. May; Bequest of Caecilia H. Norton; Bequest of Anne Hepburn Rolando; and Gift from the Estate of Ellen M. Schaeffer
Object Number
1997.45
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase 1997; from Gloria Manney, Irvington, New York, by purchase, 1984; from Jordan Volpe Gallery, New York; designed and built for the home of Joseph Briggs (long-time foreman at TIffany Studios and later Tiffany Furnaces), Center Street, Wood Ridge, New Jersey
Douglas Jackson, 'Douglas Jacson: Reflections on Joseph Briggs,' in 'Important Works of Art by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Sotheby's, NY, 12/4/1999, p. 13.
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 04
