Goblet, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, ca. 1900
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Goblet

Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933)

ca. 1900

Medium
Favrile glass
Classification
Glassware
Dimensions
Overall: 17.2 x 7.6 cm (6 3/4 x 3 in.)
Culture
New York
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Credit line
Bequest of Joseph L. Morris
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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About this work

a&c) Inverted bell-shaped cups with deep blue upper portion and milky blue-white rims shading into clear glass; domed foot with white rim and eight white tapered pinwheel forms radiating form base of stems. b) The same except that milky blue-white forms more definite frame around leaf pattern on cup and arched foot is almost fully covered by whitish pinwheel design.