Vase
Designer: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933)
Manufacturer: Tiffany Studios; Tiffany Furnaces (American)
Date: about 1899
Dimensions:
H 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.); D rim 15.3 cm (6 in.); D base 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Medium: Cypriot vase. Translucent yellow-green glass.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Carl B. Spitzer
Object number: 1988.109
Label Text:As an artist, designer, and tastemaker, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) altered the course of American decorative arts. Tiffany called his entire line of vessel glass Favrile, after an Old English word for “handmade.” His signature lustrous iridescent glass was inspired by the colorful chemical corrosion on the surface of ancient glass and was produced, as Tiffany explained, “by forming a film of a metal or its oxide, or a compound of a metal, on or in the glass either by exposing it to vapors or gases or by direct application.”
DescriptionBlown and finished by tooling. Applied, embedded leaflike decoration. The surface, somewhat iridescent and textured dark brown and gold, was created by a reducing flame on the metallic salts and oxides in the glass. Applied polished button pontil.
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