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The name tiffany jewellery originates from ancient Greece and means bright. The tiffany UK name is not so common today as tiffany jewellery UK was a century ago but tiffany jewellery is still symbolic of luxurious goods as a result of the store of that name in Big Apple.The founder of the newest York store had a son he called Louis, born in 1848. The son did not go directly into the family business but preferred to study the use of coloured blown glass in mosaics, tiffany jewellery and ceramics.The results was some fantastic objects that are now worth small fortunes when tiffany jewellery UK ever comes up in auction. Fortunately, no one has to pay big money for a tiffany jewellery lamp. The name has become a general term for any object made in the style of the original. Whether a single colour glass or a mosaic of many colours, these lamps and ceiling lights will brighten any room. Modern reproduction tiffany jewellery lamps are available today and are much widely used. The idea of coloured glass extends back a thousand years and more. Evidence shows the idea of decorative coloured glass was known and used in the seventh century. In the eleventh century the art was flourishing all over Europe. The church represented the wealth of the land then though and nearly all the stained glass was designed for churches. Many of the most spectacular coloured glass should be found in the great cathedrals and churches of Europe. Coloured glass has not just been found in Western Europe over the last thousand years. The tiffany and co Persians have throughout their history been experimenting and using tiffany jewellery in mosques along with art. In the Victoria and Albert museum inside london there was recently a whole room given over to coloured glass mosaics from modern day Iran. There is a living Iranian woman artist who centers on spectacular glass bead murals which reflect a different light from whichever angle you look at tiffany and co. The Incas used coloured glass as ornaments and tiffany jewellery a couple of thousand years back and in a strange twist, those South Sea Islanders who did not have coloured glass, gave away fortunes in gemstones to seafarers who traded with tiffany uk. Contemplating light through glass has even provided us with the expression, looking through Rose tinted glasses. The origins of this saying the skin loses through time today some people swear that looking through rose tinted glasses on a sunny day, uplifts your spirit. Not all would agree. Why not consider all those old hippies of the sixties and seventies with rose tinted glasses?