Magnolia and Irises

This is 'Magnolias and Irises' by Louis Comfort Tiffany, ca 1908 at the Metropolitam Museum of Art of New York City.

It is of course a photograph of a small replica which sits on a window-sill in our house. It reminds me of our last visit to New York in 2011 when we went to the Met to see the massive real thing. Fabulous. All that time ago. It's great when the sun shines through it. looking forward to travelling again sometime.

"This Tiffany Studios window was designed as a memorial to the Frank family of New York and was originally installed in a mausoleum of a Brooklyn cemetery. The River of Life theme is prevalent in Tiffany landscapes created for memorials. The years between 1900 and 1910 were the height of ecclesiastical window production for Tiffany Studios and figural windows were in high demand. Landscape windows, such as this example, were an appropriate alternative that provided beauty and nature in such scenes."