Vase
designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933)
maker Tiffany Studios (United States, New York, 1902–32)
c. 1905–10
- Medium
- favrile glass
- Classification
- Glass
- Dimensions
- Overall: 33 cm (13 in.)
- Culture
- America, New York
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Shattuck W. Hartwell, Sr. in memory of Lavinia Austen and William Henry Gemmell
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
When Louis Comfort Tiffany began collaborating with glass artists on new types of production, his aesthetic ambitions were finally realized in the development of Favrile glass, a term he created to imply “handmade.” Largely through his marketing ability, Favrile glass became America’s greatest contribution to the Art Nouveau style. His works were exhibited at international expositions; at galleries in major European cities, where his creations were bought by many museums; and in his store in Manhattan, known as the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co., later Tiffany Studios. From the outset, Tiffany used Favrile glass in mosaic panels, stained glass windows, and his artistic line of table and floor lamps.
