Tulip-shaped Vase (base broken off) / Louis Comfort Tiffany
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.207
- Title
- Tulip-shaped Vase (base broken off)
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Medium and Support
- opalescent and iridescent glass
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1896-1900
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Art Nouveau
- Inscription
- Initialed and numbered on base: L.C.T. M 570 Sticker on base: FAVRILE T G D CO
- Dimensions
- 33 cm (13 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Primary Object Type
- vase
- Physical Description
- This vase is in the form of a flower. The "petals" of the vessel are of folded iridescent glass in shades of gold, pink, and green. The slender green "stem" continues to the base, also in green glass.
- Subject Matter
- Henry and Lousine Havemeyer were active collectors of the hand-made, iridescent glass made by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany had been known for making leaded windows since the late 1870s, but only began to make blown-glass vessels in the early 1890s—not long after his work on the Havemeyer house in New York. Tiffany’s term for this opulent glasswork was Favrile (a term derived from the Old English work fabrile, meaning “handmade”); Tiffany obtained a patent for the richly colored and iridescent
- Favrile glass in 1894.
- Working with Tiffany to select outstanding pieces, the Havemeyers amassed an impressive collection of Tiffany’s Favrile glass; much of it was donated by the family to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nearly all of the Tiffany glass in the University of Michigan’s collection was purchased at auction in 1930, along with the architectural fragments, by Emil Lorch, University of Michigan's Dean of the College of Architecture and Design.
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- containers
- containers by form
- herbaceous plants
- landscapes (environments)
- medium
- modern and contemporary art
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 717 x 1237
- File Size
- 37 KB
- Record
- 1972/2.207
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.207/1972_2.207pre5-95.jpg
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"Tulip-shaped Vase (base broken off); Louis Comfort Tiffany." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.207/1972_2.207pre5-95.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.