Kuttrolf-like Decanter / Louis Comfort Tiffany
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.221
- Title
- Kuttrolf-like Decanter
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Medium and Support
- iridescent gold and rust 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. 50
- Dimensions
- 20.5 cm x 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm (8 1/16 in. x 4 1/8 in. x 4 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Primary Object Type
- glass
- Physical Description
- This orange/yellow iridescent decanter with a triangular-shapped stopper is pinched in the middle, dividing the vessel into several separate channels.
- 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.
- Kuttrolf bottles and decanters were first introduced during the 14th century in northern Europe; such vessels had multiple-channel necks (often tilted at an angle) to facilitate a slow pouring of the liquor held in the containers.
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- glass and glassmaking mixtures
- household objects
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- medium
- modern and contemporary art
- objects we use
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- vessels for serving drinks
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 499 x 1065
- File Size
- 28 KB
- Record
- 1972/2.221
- Link to this Item
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"Kuttrolf-like Decanter; Louis Comfort Tiffany." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.221/1972_2.221.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.