Tiffany Studios
Decorative arts manufacturer, 1900-1938
Floriform Vase
About 1905
Favrile Glass
12 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches (31.115 x 11.43 centimeters)
Gift of Remo and Verna Canova, 1997
1997.003.018
Louis Comfort Tiffany was a painter and designer of decorative objects in many media, including metal, ceramics, and glass. During his long career, which spanned the 1870s through the 1930s, he was associated with the Aesthetic Movement and the Art Nouveau style. Some of his most popular products were vases made of multi-colored, iridescent Favrile glass, a term adapted from the Old English word for "hand made." Favrile glass was produced at Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces in Corona, New York, beginning in 1893.