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

Paperweight Vase

Manufacturer Louis Comfort Tiffany (American,1848-1933)
Dateca. 1913
MediumGlass
DimensionsOverall: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.6214
Terms
  • Green
  • Mustard
  • Blue
  • White
  • Purple
  • Brown
  • New York, NY
On View
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.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
ca. 1916
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
ca. 1905
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Tiffany
ca. 1900
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2020
Tiffany Studios
ca. 1905
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
ca. 1919
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Tiffany
ca. 1906
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2024.
18th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
1901
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
19th Century
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2014.
Margaret Foley
1875
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2021.
late 19th-early 20th c.