Tiffany vase
Object Details
- Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, or Tiffany Studios
- 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.
- 1893-96
- 1893 - 96
- ID Number
- CE.96416ab
- accession number
- 30453
- catalog number
- 96416ab
- maker number
- x 856 (scratched)
- Object Name
- vase or covered jar
- vase, covered jar
- jar
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 19 1/2 in x 11 1/4 in; 49.53 cm x 28.575 cm
- overall: cover: 7 1/4 in x 5 in; 18.415 cm x 12.7 cm
- overall: jar: 12 3/8 in x 11 5/16 in; 31.4325 cm x 28.7655 cm
- 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
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1282117
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-a105-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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