Favrile Flower-Form Vase

Object Name: 
Favrile Flower-Form Vase

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Object Name: 
Favrile Flower-Form Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corona
Accession Number: 
61.4.122
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 32.3 cm, Diam (max): 13.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1900-1903
Primary Description: 
Favrile Flower-Form Vase. Colorless, transparent green and translucent opal iridescent lead glass; blown. Elongated thistle form; eight point ruffled upper rim tapers to mid-body and swells and retapers to long delicate stem with swelling knop; double-pull feather decoration on body and stem; dome and folded foot; rough pontil; engraved n base of foot: "L.C.T. Y 8281"; remainder of original paper label.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Elliott, Verna, Source
1961
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
green
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
opalescence
iridescence
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (2)

American Glass: Industry and Art
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Exhibition of objects shown on US postage stamps.
Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
 

Publications (15)

The illustrated encyclopedia of glass (2011) illustrated, pp. 88, 256; BIB# 128671
Looking at Glass: A Guide to Terms, Styles and Techniques (2005) illustrated, p. 27; BIB# 99164
Looking at Glass: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques (2005) illustrated, p. 27; BIB# 79754
The Art of Seeing (2005) illustrated, p. 82 (fig. 2.33); BIB# 78011
The Encyclopedia of Glass (2001) illustrated, p. 80, p. 211; BIB# 69319
American Glass [postage stamps] (1998) illustrated BIB# 61141
The Glass Industry in the United States (1995-09) p. 42;
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 109, #104; BIB# 35679
The Art of Seeing (1991) illustrated, pp. 84-85, (fig. 2.25); BIB# 25088
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 53, 94, pl. 84; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, cover, pp. 82-83, #78; BIB# 34475
Tiffany (1989-06) illustrated, p.16; BIB# 38149
Objekte des Jugendstils: aus der Sammlung des Kunstgewerbemuseums Zurich (1975) p. 134, #245; BIB# 18942
Tiffany piece la Lumiere (1966) p. 80; BIB# AI386
Tiffany piece la Lumiere (1966) p. 80; BIB# AI386