Tiffany Glass and Heritage at the Haworth Art Gallery

The Haworth Art Gallery is a public art gallery located in Accrington, Lancashire, in northwest England. The museum is housed in a Tudor-style house that was originally built in 1909 to be the home of William Haworth, a manufacturer of textiles. The house was designed by York architect Walter Brierley and was bequeathed to the people of Accrington in 1920.

The gallery is the home of the largest collection in Europe of Tiffany glass from the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany. This collection was a gift from Joseph Briggs, a design apprentice who emigrated to the United States and worked for Tiffany for 40 years from about 1892. In 1933, he sent his collection back to Accrington.

The Tiffany collection is the largest outside the United States, featuring almost every type of Tiffany glass, including 140 pieces such as Favrile glass tiles, jewels, samples, and mosaics. Visitors can view the collection in four themed-rooms: 'Tiffany and Interior Design', 'Tiffany and the Past', 'Tiffany and Nature', and 'The Tiffany Phenomenon'. Notable items include over 70 vases, including 'Millefiore Paperweight', 'Intaglio' or cut-glass examples, and vases shaped like vegetables.

In addition to the Tiffany glass, the museum houses a collection of mainly 19th-century oil paintings and watercolours. These include works by artists such as Frederic, Lord Leighton, Claude Joseph Vernet, and John Frederick Herring.

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