Skylight

c. 1880-1882

A skylight (American, c. 1880-1882) by John La Farge. Originally designed for the Dining Room at the Vanderbilt home at 1 West 57th Street in New York, the skylight is composed of three square green and white opalescent glass panels accented with faceted glass jewels, on design of doubled white diamonds with arabesque and vegetable forms. Together with two rectangular brown and white opalescent glass panels dotted with ruby cabochons from the watercolor room at One West 57th Street. The skylight was installed in New York in 1882, removed in 1893, and reworked by Francis Lathrop - a former collaborator of John La Farge - with a guilloche border for the Staircase Hall of The Breakers in 1885.

American

glass

335.3 x 1005.8 cm (132 x 396 inches)

Preservation Society of Newport County purchase, 1972.

PSNC.11517