Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Vase with Stylized Red Flowers

Manufacturer Tiffany Furnaces (American, 1902 - 1920)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1914-1915

MediumBlown glass with millefiori

DimensionsOverall: 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm)
Overall, Rim: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

InscribedMarked around pontil: "2384J L.C. Tiffany-Favrile Panama-Pacific Ex-".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6209

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-7, Case 43

DescriptionPaperweight style vase. Bulge at top near the short neck and slightly flaring bottom. Clear glass with three red flowers with green leaves "growing" from the bottom. Iridescent inside.

Label TextTiffany Furnaces Corona, New York Vase with Stylized Red Flowers, ca. 1915 Blown glass with millefiori Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.6209 This vase may have been part of Tiffany's extensive display at the Panama Pacific Exhibition, The World's Fair held in San Francisco in 1915. Approved By: ERLExhibition History"Louis C. Tiffany: Master of Glass," Musée du Luxembourg, September 16, 2009- January 10, 2010; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, February 11 - May 2, 2010; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 5 - August 29, 2010.Published ReferencesGrover, ART GLASS NOUVEAU, pg. 99, similar one illustrated. Chrysler Museum NEWSLETTER, Nov. 1972, article and ill. Norman Potter, TIFFANY GLASS, (Octopus Books Limited: NYC, 1988), ill. Chrysler Museum TIFFANY CATALOGUE, #18. Dr. Robert Koch, _Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch_ (Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 2001), 203.