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Peacock Vase Vase

This is a vase. It was produced by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company and the design director was Louis Comfort Tiffany. It is dated ca. 1901 and we acquired it in 1975. Its medium is mold-blown, iridized glass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Louis Comfort Tiffany's patented "Favrile" glass, produced at the Tiffany Furnaces in New York, featured shimmering surfaces of iridescence, reminiscent of ancient glass treasures. The "Peacock" vases reflect Tiffany's interest in the long, sinous lines of the Art Nouveau style and his fascination with highly organic forms.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled The Lure of the Peacock: Iridescence and Immortality.

This object was donated by Stanley Siegel. It is credited Gift of Stanley Siegel, from the Stanley Siegel Collection.

A large trumpet shaped fluted vase with an undulating wine-red rim. It tapers to a clear yellow-amber-ochre colored body. The circular foot base connects to the stem with a bejeweled colored pattern of purple, deep red and gold.

Vase (USA), 1883–88
blown amberina glass.
Gift of Paul F. Walter.
2010-6-3

Vase (Netherlands)
tin-glazed earthenware.
Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren.
1986-61-34

Jacket, The Scarab, from A I R Collection

Jacket, The Scarab, from A I R Collection
leather, heat and wind reactive ink.
Courtesy of TheUnseen.
46.2015.1

Our curators have highlighted 13 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Vase Vase
mouth-blown favrile glass.
Gift of Stanley Siegel, from the Stanley Siegel Collection.
1975-32-9

$Book, Opticks, or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. . . .$

Book, Opticks, or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflexions and...
letterpress and engraving on paper.
Gift of Burndy Library, Smithsonian Libraries, QC353 .N56 1704.
92.2016.35

An earthenware pitcher with a squat bulbous gourd-like form with a large leaf-shaped spout and handle in the form of a gathered root or vine. The pitcher has an eosin-reduced glaze, creating freeform, non-figural color patterns on its sinuous ceramic body in a vibrant green and gold iridescent luster finish.

Leaf Pitcher
earthenware, eosin glaze.
Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.
2007-3-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 33.7 x 25 x 14 cm (13 1/4 x 9 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

On underside of vase: [1] "04646", etched.

Cite this object as

Peacock Vase Vase; Produced by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company; Design Director: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933); USA; mold-blown, iridized glass; H x W x D: 33.7 x 25 x 14 cm (13 1/4 x 9 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Gift of Stanley Siegel, from the Stanley Siegel Collection; 1975-32-11

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Deconstructing Power : W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World's Fair, Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color, Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest and Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CKSM/
Accession Number 1975-32-11
Object ID 18488125