Vase

Louis C. Tiffany|Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company|Tiffany Furnaces

ca. 1900–1915 · Favrile glass · The American Wing

This so-called jack-in-the-pulpit vase is one of the quintessential shapes in Tiffany's oeuvre of blown glass. Essentially a flower form, it has a flattened globular base resembling a bulb rising into a slender stalk to an open blossom with a ruffled rim. The outer rim has a feathery appearance, as if the iridescence on the surface developed shallow fissures when the molten blossom was expanded to its final form.

Artist

Louis C. Tiffany|Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company|Tiffany Furnaces

Date

ca. 1900–1915

Medium

Favrile glass

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Helen Palmer Andrus, in memory of Helen Andrus Pinkham, 1997