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Peacock Vase Vase

This is a vase. It was manufactured 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.

The swirling decoration on the glass adds a rococo aesthetic to this organic form.

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.

Lily Vase Vase
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:

Toilet Bottle
glass.
Gift of Samuel P. Avery.
1903-1-21

Ashtray (USA)
favrile glass.
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris.
1966-55-2

Off white sheer cotton fragment embroidered with a stylized floral spray design. Two large blossoms curl to the right, whilst smaller flowers and varied foliage sprout above the blooms and beneath the blossoms leaves and stems twist to the left. The stems are created using gold foil strips, while the small floral elements are made from gilt sequins and the leaves are from iridescent beetle elytra. The embroidery is done using gold-metal wrapped silk thread.

Fragment (India)
cotton ground, beetle elytra, gold foil strips, gilt sequins, gold....
Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
1931-43-20

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; Manufactured 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