Vase
Designer: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933)
Manufacturer: Tiffany Studios; Tiffany Furnaces (American)
Date: Probably 1912
Dimensions:
H 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); D base 4.65 cm (1 27/32 in.)
Medium: Body: transparent amber glass with deep red surface finish (stain?); neck: translucent white glass
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of W. W. Knight, Jr.; Milton Knight; Edward F. Knight; Samuel B. Knight; and Mrs. Harris McIntosh
Object number: 1969.266
Label Text:Fascinated by ancient glass excavated at Tel-el-Amarna in Egypt, Tiffany initiated a series of vessels named for the site. Called Akhetaten in ancient times, Amarna was the city that the Pharaoh Akhenaten established as the new capital of Egypt during his reign. This vase from Tiffany’s Tel El Amarna series features a classical shape in deep oxblood red with an applied zigzag pattern in green around the neck. The pattern is meant to evoke the combed threading common on ancient Egyptian glass vessels (see Gallery 5).
DescriptionBlown and finished by tooling. Applied tooled neck. Green glass band applied at junction of neck and body and on rim. Neck decorated with applied yellow-green and green glass tooled in a stylized leaf pattern. Outer edge of base stone-ground. Applied concave, semipolished, button pontil.
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