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Vase

Designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933)

Manufacturer Tiffany Studios; Tiffany Furnaces (American)

Place of OriginCorona, Long Island, New York

DateProbably 1913

DimensionsH: 50.9 cm (20 1/32 in.); Max W: 28.3 cm (11 1/8 in.); Base Diam: 11.7 cm (4 19/32 in.)

Mediumglass, blown and iridescent

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Helen and Harold McMaster

Object number

1986.62

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 5

DescriptionBlown and tooled into a floral form called jack-in-the-pulpit. Multihued iridescence, ranging from silvery blue and golden green to mauve and pink. Large concave button pontil applied to underside of base, in the center of which is a very round, jagged pontil mark.

Label TextWith its huge, brilliantly colored blossom rising from an impossibly long and thin stem, Tiffany’s remarkable blue luster vase is breathtaking. The flower’s edge is textured with fine lines and crackles that suggest living plant tissue, as its undulating shape maximizes the effects of light on the colorful iridescent glass. Although known as a “jack-in-the-pulpit” vase, it actually bears little resemblance to that plant. During the second half of the nineteenth century, glass manufacturers were drawn to the novelty of making flower vases as realistic versions of the plants themselves. In the Art Nouveau period at the turn of the 20th century, however, glass designers like Tiffany took a more intense, artistic view of natural forms, creating idealized and sinuous organic shapes.Published ReferencesKoch, Robert, Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass, New York, Crown, 1964, pl. X, bottom left.

Koch, Robert, Louis C. Tiffany's Art Glass, New York, Crown, 1977, p. 19, fig. 107.

Paul E. Doros, The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Norfolk, Va., Chrysler Museum, 1978, p. 41, fig. 49;

Siegfried Wichman, Jugendstil Art Nouveau: Floral and Functional Forms, Boston, Little, Brown, 1984, fig. 10;

"Recent Important Accessions," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 29, 1987, repr. p. 126;

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 626, no. 1016, colorpl. 1016, p. 581.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 167, repr. (col.) p. 166.

Reich, Paula, Toledo Museum of Art: Map and Guide, London, Scala, 2009, p. 46, repr. (col.).

Glass Problems Conference, 70th Conference on Glass Problems: 75 Years of Glass Problems Conferences (1934-2009), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2009, repr. (col.) cover of pamphlet.