Tiffany vase
date: label: date made
content: 1893 - 96
name: label: maker
content: Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, or Tiffany Studios
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Favrile glass, made of brown glass, decorated with spiral bands of smoky drab, yellow, and bluish gray and vertical double bands of yellow changing to brown and green spots between the latter. Form: An inverted fire balloon shape. Purchased from Charles Tiffany, $15.00.
label: Description
content: A major participant in the Art Nouveau movement, Louis Comfort Tiffany developed various colors, iridescent effects, and glass working techniques in order to produce this distinctive art glass. He created a term for his glass, "Favrile," which eventually became the trademark for various handcrafted Tiffany products. During the late 1890s through the early 20th Century, Tiffany glass, produced in New York receive world-wide recognition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Corona
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.96442
label: catalog number
content: 96.442
label: accession number
content: 30453
label: maker number
content: 4014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, translucent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mold blown (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 4 in; 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm