Paperweight Vase
Manufacturer
Louis Comfort Tiffany
(American,1848-1933)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1913
MediumGlass
DimensionsOverall: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
InscribedMarked around polished pontil on edge: "L.C. Tiffany - Favrile 8560 H" and "Paris-Salon 1914".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.6214
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a paperweight vase of transparent green-tinted glass. Circling the shoulder are thin opaque mustard-yellow and green vines. Over these vines are six translucent heart-shaped leaves of green and pastel blue with purple-brown veins and white and purple-brown borders.Published References_Chrysler Museum Newsletter_, Nov. 1972, article and ill. Paul E. Doros. _The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_. Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1978, #17.
18th century
19th Century
late 19th-early 20th c.