New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Flower Form Vase

Manufacturer Louis Comfort Tiffany (American,1848-1933)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1904

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 14 in. (35.6 cm)

InscribedMarked around bottom: "L.C.T. u5951", with a horizontal line atop the "u".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6324

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-6, Case 40

DescriptionThis is a flower-form vase with a base of transparent light yellow glass and a stem and bowl of clear glass. The domed base has a scalloped and folded edge and a ribbed surface that is speckled with gold. Thin green stripes on the stem extend to form five jagged leaves on the ribbed bowl. The top half of the bowl is opalescent white. The bottom of the base has a multicolored iridescence that is predominately orange-gold. The scalloped rim and top of the bowl have a purple-gold iridescence and the rest of the bowl's interior has a gold-orange iridescence.

Published ReferencesPaul E. Doros. _The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_. Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1978, #34.