This is opalescent glass in the Great Mausoleum
of Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, California. It was made by Louis Comfort
Tiffany, Harry and Bert Hopps, Frederick S. Lamb or Charles J. Connick before
World War I. The Cypress Lawn Collection comprises one of the largest displays
of opalescent glass in the United States. This somber paradises sparkles like
Persephone in an underworld of jewels and colors. This is part 1, of a twelve
part series that I am posting on Princess Haiku 2014-2015. Enjoy! It wasn't
easy venturing into The Great Mausoleum and peering into tombs, but I wanted to
capture some of this beauty before it disappears. Priceless glass, monuments
and other funeral art is disappearing from cemeteries across the United States
and represents a valuable heritage of art. It is my hope that historical
societies will do all that is possible to preserve and save that which is still
intact.
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