Favrile vase
An iridescent glass in the shape of a flower, from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glassworks on Long Island.
Louis Comfort Tiffany patented Favrile glass in 1894. The name comes from an old word for handmade. The glass got its sheen from metal oxides applied while it was still hot.
The vases took the shape of flowers, with slender necks and wide feet. They show American Art Nouveau and became a model for glassworks in Europe, among them Loetz in Bohemia.
Materials: Favrile glass – iridescent glass with metal oxides
Manufacture: Blown at Tiffany’s furnaces in Corona, New York; the surface was treated with metallic salts that gave a rainbow sheen.
The rainbow-iridescent surface.
Patterns of feathers or leaves drawn into the glass while it was hot.
An engraved signature under the foot, often L.C. Tiffany Favrile and a number.