Bowl
Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902)
c. 1896
- Medium
- Favrile glass
- Classification
- Glass
- Dimensions
- Overall: 18 x 25 cm (7 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Sam Minoff, donated by Mike & Amy Southard
- 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
Among his many achievements in the decorative arts, Louis Comfort Tiffany invented a type of glass with unprecedented opalescence that he patented under the name Favrile, derived from an Old English word meaning "handcrafted." Tiffany memorably described his Favrile glass as "distinguished by brilliant or deeply toned colors, usually iridescent like the wings of certain American butterflies, the necks of pigeons and peacocks, the wing covers of various beetles."
