Vase Designer: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933)
Maker: Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (American, 1892–1902)

1900

American Decorative Arts

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design


Louis Comfort Tiffany studied the opalescent surfaces of ancient Roman and Near Eastern glass and in 1880 took out a patent for his own iridescent glass called Favrile. The name derived from fabrile, an Old French term for “handcrafted.”

Medium

Iridescent Favrile glass

Dimensions

height: 7 7/16 in. (18.89 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Professor Shepard Stevens, B.F.A. 1922, M.A. (Hon.) 1930

Accession Number

1957.3.1

Geography

Manufactured in Corona, Queens, New York

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Collection of Professor Shepherd Stevens; gift 1957 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Hugh F. McKean and Will Rousseau, The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980), 281
  • Rudolf Koch, Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass (New York: Crown Publishers, 1964), 159
  • Tiffany Favrile Catalogue of the Year 1915, exh. cat. (New York: Tiffany Studios, 1915), Throughout
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

vases

Marks

"L.C.T. N7225" engraved along the edge of underside. The remnants of a round paper Tiffany label on the underside is imprinted with:\r\n"__ TIFFANY·FAVRI_E·GLA__, __TRADE·M__" around the perimeter. The center has the remains of what would have read as a large "T" in the center and flanked at the top by "G" on the left and "D" on the right and at the bottom by "C" at the left and "O" on the right.

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