Tiffany vase

Description (Brief):

Favrile glass. Body is of light green glass. Form: shortened ovoid body with short large concave neck and flaring lip. Cover is shouldered on its lower side; top has a conical center trumpet shape and terminates in a tapering rod, its end looped back and bent partly around the shaft. Decorated with red-tinted grasses over the entire surface; iridescent. Purchased from Charles Tiffany for $70.00.

Date Made: 1893-961893 - 96

Maker: Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, or Tiffany Studios

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass, Art, Domestic Furnishings

Exhibition: Art in Industry

Exhibition Location: National Museum of American History

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: CE.96416abAccession Number: 30453Catalog Number: 96416abMaker Number: x 856 (scratched)

Object Name: vase or covered jarvase, covered jarjar

Physical Description: glass (overall material)Measurements: overall: 19 1/2 in x 11 1/4 in; 49.53 cm x 28.575 cmoverall: cover: 7 1/4 in x 5 in; 18.415 cm x 12.7 cmoverall: jar: 12 3/8 in x 11 5/16 in; 31.4325 cm x 28.7655 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-a105-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1282117

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