Favrile Vase with Peacock Feather Plique à jour Mount

Object Name: 
Favrile Vase with Peacock Feather Plique à jour Mount

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Object Name: 
Favrile Vase with Peacock Feather Plique à jour Mount
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corona
Accession Number: 
2006.4.161
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14.5 cm, W: 7.9 cm, Diam (max): 7.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1897-1899
Web Description: 
Edouard Colonna produced several mounts for Tiffany vases, but this is the only mount known to survive. It features a type of enameling in the leaf-shaped peacock feathers known as Plique à jour (against the light). Normally, glass enamel is assembled on a metal ground. In Plique à jour, there is no metal ground, so the light shines through the enamel like a miniature stained-glass window.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Lesieutre, Alain, Former Collection
Macklowe Gallery, Former Collection
Pollard, Richard, Former Collection
Sotheby's, Source
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
red
Technique: 
gilding
glassblowing
iridescence
Material: 
glass
silver
enamel
ruby
Inscription: 
L.C.T. F2264
inscription
: 
Engraved. On underside of vase.

Description

Primary Description: 
Favrile Vase with Peacock Feather Plique à jour Mount. Translucent reddish glass, silver-gilt mount, Plique à jour enamel, rubies; blown, iridized. Small vase with bulbous lower body and long, thin, cylindrical neck. The body is decorated overall with golden iridescence in peacock trailings. A silver gilt mount encircles the long neck with ear-shaped plique-a-jour enamel decoration at the top and six rubies inset in various locations on the mount.

Exhibitions (2)

Louis C. Tiffany, Master of Modern Art Glass
Venue(s)
Musee du Luxembourg 2009-09-16 through 2010-01-17
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal 2010-02-11 through 2010-05-02
Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia 2010-06-05 through 2010-08-15
Exhibition of L’Art Nouveau
Venue(s)
Grafton Galleries
Siegfried Bing, Paris, Grafton Galleries, London
 

Publications (13)

Reassembled Tiffany (2009-10-30) illustrated, p. C24;
Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01) illustrated, p. 8; BIB# 109342
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Couleurs et lumiere au musee du Luxembourg (2009) illustrated, p. 9, left;
Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour (2009) illustrated, pp.144-145; BIB# 112877
Artistic Luxury: Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique (2008) illustrated, p. 287; BIB# 106921
The Gather (2007) illustrated, p. 11; BIB# AI75852
Journal of Glass Studies, 49 (2007) illustrated, Cover, frontispiece;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2006 (2007) illustrated, Cover; pp. [1], 11; BIB# AI92696
Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection (2004) p. 249; BIB# 81365
The Paris Salons 1895-1914 (1994) p. 447; BIB# 26747
Tiffany at Auction (1981) p. 41, pl. 113; BIB# 21975
Art Nouveau & Art Deco. (Christie's) (1979-05-24) illustrated, p. 41, #113; BIB# 6650
Exhibition of l’Art Nouveau (1899) illustrated, pl. 5; BIB# 30567