Design for a plaque
Louis C. Tiffany American
Tiffany Studios
Not on view
The Tiffany Studios Ecclesiastical Department offered many ways to memorialize loved ones, including bronze plaques for mausoleums and monuments. These plaques were often produced for preexisting structures, such as this design for a plaque for the Paine Family Mausoleum in Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 1904 the Paines, a wealthy family of Oshkosh, built a mausoleum replicating the Parthenon, complete with fluted Doric columns, triglyphs, and pediment. To complement the Neoclassical mausoleum, the trumpet-blowing angels wear classical drapery and flank a symmetrical and orderly composition. The additions of the cross and Madonna lilies, however, keep the design appropriately Christian.
