New York Tiffany Studios ‘Butterfly & Yellow Rose’ Table Lamp

The Butterfly and Yellow Rose Lamp from Tiffany Studios portrays a captivating scene where amber butterflies gracefully float above a bed of yellow roses against a honeycomb background that gradates from a blue sky to a verdant meadow. The design inspiration stems from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s first business partner, Candace Wheeler. Back in 1881, Wheeler crafted a wallpaper titled “Bees with Honeycomb,” featuring a colony of bees hovering over white clover set against a honeycomb backdrop. This intricate imagery served as the basis for the geometrically simplified design of the lamp.Notably, Tiffany, renowned for his artistic flair, established a circular rose garden on the upper terrace of his inaugural estate. This garden was adorned with yellow roses, a botanical choice inspired by the preferences of Chaucer and Shakespeare. In Renaissance symbolism, the yellow rose came to represent inner beauty, noted for its fragrance in both life and death.