Vase
maker Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902)
retailer Siegfried Bing (German, active in France, 1838–1905)
c. 1900
- Medium
- Favrile glass, silver mount
- Classification
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 13 x 11.5 cm (5 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- America, New York
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Bequest of Charles Maurer
- 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
This small vase is made of Louis Comfort Tiffany's signature Favrile glass. Early on when Tiffany began collaborating with glass artists on new types of production, his aesthetic ambitions were realized in the development of Favrile glass, deliberately named to sound French, expensive, and “handmade.” Largely through Tiffany's marketing ability, Favrile glass became America’s greatest contribution to the Art Nouveau style. His works were exhibited at international expositions; 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. Along with the many shapes and sizes of his decorative vases, Tiffany used Favrile glass in mosaic panels, stained glass windows, and his artistic line of table and floor lamps.
