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Tiffany lamp maquettes The most common scale used for maquettes at the National Gallery is one inch to one foot. At a smaller scale, models of objects like jewelry can be difficult to handle and are easily lost. Larger exhibition elements are sometimes modeled at half-inch scale to prevent their becoming unwieldy.

Using a scale of one inch to one foot, the maquettes shown represent Tiffany lamps that stand just over two feet tall in real life.