# Bowl

- By: Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (America, New York, 1892–1902)
- Date: c. 1896
- Medium: Favrile glass
- Classification: Glass
- Dimensions: Overall: 18 x 25 cm (7 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Culture: America
- Credit line: Gift in memory of Sam Minoff, donated by Mike & Amy Southard
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2023.129)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2023.129/2023.129_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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."