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Vase (USA)

This is a vase. It was overseen (as design director) by Louis Comfort and produced by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company and manufactured by Tiffany Studios. It is dated ca. 1906 and we acquired it in 1956. Its medium is favrile glass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

The form of this Favrile glass vase suggests a flower with flared bloom and narrow stem. Tiffany coined the word “favrile” from the Latin fabrilis (relating to a craftsman), to imply handwork for his mold-made glass. His experiments with minerals resulted in an iridescence suggesting the surface of excavated ancient Roman glass.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.

Stemmed Sherbet Dish (USA)
favrile glass.
Gift of Harry Harkness Flagler.
1948-64-63

A free-blown favrile glass bowl vase whose iridescent glaze gives it a multidimensional colored effect of blue, purple and gold, with the blue-purple more apparent in the bottom half of the vessel. The shape is a somewhat depressed sphere with a heavy, rolled-over rim from a squarish opening with three visible thick ribs irregularly drawn down and diminishing to points at the base.

Favrile Bowl Vase, ca. 1895-96
free-blown favrile glass.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1952-166-33

Tile (USA)
glass.
Museum purchase through gift of Gertrude Crownfield.
1958-48-1

Our curators have highlighted 9 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Vase Vase
mold-blown favrile glass.
Gift of Thomas Carnase.
1977-83-1

Print, Bird of Paradise Castle (Ho-o-jo), No. 5

Print, Bird of Paradise Castle (Ho-o-jo), No. 5
40.2 x 27.9 cm (15 13/16 in. x 11 in.).
Gift of Mary Rutherford Jay.
1948-134-60

Frieze (USA)
machine-printed oatmeal paper.
Gift of Victorian Collectibles.
1979-91-372

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 26.8 x 13.7 cm (10 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Vase (USA); Design Director: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933); Produced by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company; Manufactured by Tiffany and Co. (United States); favrile glass; H x diam.: 26.8 x 13.7 cm (10 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan; 1956-66-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Botanical Expressions, Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest, Making Design and Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CmSk/
Accession Number 1956-66-1
Object ID 18410727