[Lamp] The industrialist Andrew Carnegie owned this Tiffany lamp. Lamps with leaded-glass shades were extremely popular between 1900 and the late 1920s. Tiffany Studios, founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1900, made the first and finest examples of these lamps.

Glass dragonflies and gemlike encrustations embedded in a metal network dominate the shade. The dragonflies seem to hover over the gilt bronze base, modeled to look like a pond with lily pads and a tuft of grass.

Courtesy of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, gift of Margaret Carnegie Miller, daughter of Andrew Carnegie.

Dragonfly Table Lamp, by the Tiffany Studios, 1900-1910, United States, bronze, glass, and lead

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