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

Cypriote Vase

Manufacturer Louis Comfort Tiffany (American,1848-1933)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1915

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 in. (5.1 cm)

InscribedMarked around polished pontil: "Louis C. Tiffany o8947". (Special order). Signature like Cypriote GAT.59.5.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6273

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-7, Case 41

DescriptionCypriote style vase of blown glass. Central bulge and a short straight neck. Pock marked opaque cream color and gold outer skin with irregular gold lines and large irregular gold flowers scattered.

Exhibition HistoryLoaned to Nassau County Museum for exhibit "Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Laurelton Hall Years," 8/17-10/19/86. "The Natural Beauty of Tiffany: Selections from the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 18 - December 30, 2012. Published ReferencesPaul E. Doros, _The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_ (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1978) 62, #60. Holly Pinto Savinetti, LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY: THE LAURELTON HALL YEARS, (Nassau County Museum of Art: Roslyn, 1986), pg. 14, fig. 6.