Louis Comfort Tiffany Fireplace Tile Panels

Art Nouveau, Tiles from Stained Glass

A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them. The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it. ~Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes

These tiles are based on the Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass panel, Grapevine, about 1915. Tiffany's tiles were made from leaded favrile glass. Favrile was the first art glass to be used in stained-glass windows. Tiffany discovered how medieval artisans made their stained glass and improved on it, embedding the color in the glass itself and treating the molten glass with metalic oxides to increase the absorption of the color and making them irridescent. Tiffany patented the process in 1894, a few years before he won the Grand Prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

If there was any doubt prior, Tiffany elevated the process to an art form in Grape Vine. The lead lines are both thick and thin, some of the twining vines are lead, and some are glass. The strong lines of the trelis itself are made with lead. It is large! The Grape Vine stained glass panel is 36 x 98 inches. You can see it at the Met.

Fun fact: Favrile comes from the Old English word "Frabile", which means "handmade". William Morris would have liked that.

I also have a half-panel (three-tile) version that could be a good choice for smaller a bedroom fireplace, or on each side of a vanity.

However, the pattern is seamless on the vertical so if I haven't accommodated your dimensions here, there's a good chance we work something out without too much difficulty, so Contact me.

Title: Tiffany Grapevine Fireplace Tile Panels

Tiles are 4.25 or 6 inches.



Pricing for Tiffany Grapevine Fireplace Tile Panels

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Tiles are 4.25 or 6 inches.

Single panel

Half panel on 4.25 inch tiles (3 tiles): $300


Full panel on 4.25 inch tiles (6 tiles): $620

Two panels

Half panel on 6 inch tiles (6 tiles): $655


Full panel on 6 inch tiles (12 tiles): $1380