Favrile Vase

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Object Name: 
Favrile Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corona
Accession Number: 
94.4.174
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.2 cm, Diam (max): 13 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1900-1903
Credit Line: 
Gift of Benedict Silverman
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass with multicolored internal decoration, largely red-amber, yellow-green, blue-gray non-lead glasses; blown. Tear-drop shaped vessel with narrow opening, short fire-polished collared rim/neck; overall internal decoration of swirled and striated metallic oxide coloration; slightly concave base; thick, ground pontil; inscribed in script on base edge: "L.C. Tiffany - Favrile Y3791".

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Duncan, Alastair, Former Collection
1994
McNally, Mary Beth, Former Collection
1994
Silverman, Benedict, Source
1994
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
Colorless, red-amber, yellow
colorless
Technique: 
blown

Publications (3)

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 70, #112; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 37 (1995) illustrated, pp. 114-115, #38; BIB# AI36371
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1994 (1995) p. 11; BIB# AI95181