Cypriot Vase
Medium
favrile glass
Dimensions
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Classification
Glass
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Virginia Hubbell
Accession Number
1997.300
Tags
gender unknown
About this artwork
This small vase is an example of Louis Comfort Tiffany's signature Favrile glass. It was made in the style of ancient glass from Cyprus that Tiffany had admired for the iridescent color and encrusted texture of the surface caused by oxidation while buried for many years. Tiffany had noticed these qualities in ancient glass exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at his father's store, Tiffany & Co., in New York. When Tiffany began collaborating with artisans on new types of glass pro...