Tiffany Studios New York "Damascene" Favrile Glass Vase

Name: Tiffany Studios New York "Damascene" Favrile Glass Vase
Brand: Tiffany Studios
Price: 22500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This arresting Damascene Favrile Glass Vase bears a swirling pattern of blue and purple iridescence and ochre glass. The vase's pattern is based upon Damascus steel, whereby near eastern blacksmiths welded iron and high carbon steel, folding the metal over and over again and drawing it out into arms and armor. The metal was then treated with acid, which reacted differently to the various layers. Product Details: Item #: T-21139 Artist: Tiffany Studios New York Country: United States Circa: 1902 Dimensions: 5.875" high Materials: Favrile Glass Signed: engraved L.C. Tiffany T8400 Favrile Exhibition History: Glass Threads: Tiffany, Quezal, Imperial, Durand, Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, New Jersey, April 3, 2004-January 2, 2005 Literature: Gay LeCleire Taylor, Glass Threads: Tiffany, Quezal, Imperial, Durand, exh. cat., Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, 2004, p. 35, fig. 31-2 (for the present lot illustrated) Paul Doros, The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, 2013, p. 24 (for the present lot illustrated) Macklowe Gallery's Curator's Notes: The term “Favrile,” derived from the Old English word “Fabrile” meaning handmade, is a type of glass that Louis Comfort Tiffany patented in 1894, after years of experimentation. Favrile glass is highly iridescent due to the embedded coloring. The term “Favrile” glass was used generally by Tiffany Studios New York to mark their various products, from art and stained glass to ceramics, to denote a product of the highest quality created by hand by the company’s craftspeople.

Creator:

Tiffany Studios (Workshop/Studio)

Dimensions:

Height: 5.875 in (14.93 cm)Diameter: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)

Style:

Art Nouveau (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Glass

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

Early 20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1902

Condition:

Seller Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

Seller: T-211391stDibs: LU885439769662

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The hand-crafted kerosene and early electric lighting fixtures created at Tiffany Studios now rank among the most coveted decorative objects in the world. Tiffany designs of any kind are emblematic of taste and craftsmanship, and Tiffany glass refers to far more than stained-glass windows and decorative glass objects. The iconic multimedia manufactory’s offerings include stained-glass floor lamps, chandeliers and enameled metal vases. The most recognizable and prized of its works are antique Tiffany Studios table lamps.

The name Tiffany generally prompts thoughts of two things: splendid gifts in robin’s-egg blue boxes and exquisite stained glass. In 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany co-founded the former — Tiffany & Co., one of America’s most prominent purveyors of luxury goods — while his son, Louis Comfort Tiffany, is responsible for exemplars of the latter.

Louis was undoubtedly the most influential and accomplished American decorative artist in the decades that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rather than join the family business, he studied painting with several teachers, notably the scenic painter Samuel Colman, while spending long periods touring Europe and North Africa. Though he painted his entire career, visits to continental churches sparked a passionate interest in stained glass. Tiffany began experimenting with the material and in 1875 opened a glass factory-cum-laboratory in Corona, Queens — the core of what eventually became Tiffany Studios.

In his glass designs, Tiffany embraced the emerging Art Nouveau movement and its sinuous, naturalistic forms and motifs. By 1902, along with glass, Tiffany was designing stained-glass lamps and chandeliers as well as enameled metal vases, boxes and bowls, and items such as desk sets and candlesticks. Today such pieces epitomize the rich aesthetics of their era.

The lion’s share of credit for Tiffany Studios table lamps and other fixtures has gone to Louis. However, it was actually Clara Driscoll (1861–1944), an Ohio native and head of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department for 17 years, who was the genius behind the Tiffany lamps that are most avidly sought by today’s collectors. A permanent gallery of Tiffany lamps at the New-York Historical Society celebrates the anonymous women behind the desirable fixtures.

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