Tiffany vase
Tiffany vase
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- Description (Brief)
- Favrile glass. The body is of brown bottle glass covered with black. Form: double gourd shape, the lower part much the larger, the neck slender and cylindrical. Decorated with meandering lines hanging in festoons from the bottom when inverted, the lines continuing in a thread to upper part. Purchased from Charles Tiffany for $50.00.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- vase
- vase
- vase or bottle
- vase, bottle
- vase, tall
- date made
- 1893-96
- 1893 - 96
- maker
- Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, or Tiffany Studios
- Physical Description
- monochrome, green, light (overall surface decoration color name)
- glass, transparent (overall material)
- amber, dark (overall popular color name)
- threaded (joint piece production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 19 5/8 in x 8 7/8 in; 49.8475 cm x 22.5425 cm
- overall: 19 1/2 in x 9 in; 49.53 cm x 22.86 cm
- ID Number
- CE.96415
- catalog number
- 96415
- accession number
- 30453
- maker number
- 45
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Art
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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