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Vase

c. 1900
maker

Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company

(America, New York, 1892–1902)
retailer

Siegfried Bing

(German, active in France, 1838–1905)
Culture
America, New York
Medium
Favrile glass, silver mount
Measurements
13 x 11.5 cm (5 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Weight: 380 g (13.4 oz.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Charles Maurer 2018.279
Public Domain
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This vase has French mounts indicating that it was likely sold by Louis Comfort Tiffany's agent in Paris, Siegfried Bing, who helped popularize Tiffany's designs throughout Europe.

Description

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.
An iridescent Favrile glass vase features a rounded body and narrow neck capped with a silver rim. Shimmering, translucent bands of gold, orange, purple, and green form horizontal zigzags that glow with a metallic luster. Intricate silver mounts emerge from small leaves at the base, rising in slender stems that terminate in large, drooping foliage at the shoulders. The glass appears to ripple beneath the textured metal.

Vase

c. 1900

Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, Siegfried Bing

(America, New York, 1892–1902), (German, active in France, 1838–1905)
America, New York

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