Favrile Vase

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Object Name: 
Favrile Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corona
Accession Number: 
80.4.40
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19.3 cm, Diam: 12.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1926
Web Description: 
At Tiffany Studios, glass vessels were produced by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company until 1902. In 1902, the factory became Tiffany Furnaces, which housed Tiffany’s pottery and bronze foundry in addition to the glassworks.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Pirnie, Peter, Source
1980-07-10
Pirnie, Mrs. Peter, Source
1980-07-10
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless glass encasing multicolored swirls of glass or enamels; blown. Irregular ovoid shape with cylindrical neck; predominantly pink-gray in color below the rim; central region primarily green and light orange; area towards base a more intense green and orange; polished pontil mark; engraved inscription on foot rim "843 N L.C. Tiffany - Inc. Favrile", paper label embossed in green and gold with curvilinear "LCT" monogram.

Publications (3)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 23 (1981) illustrated, p. 100, #31; BIB# AI98083
The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1980) 304 p.; BIB# 20951
Louis C. Tiffany's Glass-Bronzes-Lamps: A Complete Collector's Guide (1971) illustrated, 208;