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Tiffany Is Known For Lamps And Stained Glass, But He Made Magical Mosaics, Too

Louis Comfort Tiffany — son of the luxury jeweler — took a trip to Italy in the late 1800s and returned inspired. A museum in Western New York has devoted an exhibition to these lesser known works.
This mosaic panel of peonies, made of inlaid iridized glass and bronze, was made circa 1900–1910.

When you think of stained glass, the name Tiffany probably comes to mind — those luminescent lamp shades or a stained glass window in a church or cathedral. But Louis Comfort Tiffany and his studio of artisans did much more than that, and some of their lesser known at the Corning Museum of Glass in Western New York.

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