Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2020.

Lava Vase

Manufacturer Tiffany Studios (American, 1902-1932)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1908

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 4 15/16 x 5 1/4 in. (12.5 x 13.3 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Base: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)

InscribedMarks are engraved on the pontil, in copper wheel: "2021C L.C. Tiffany Favrile" and lightly in diamond-point: "0X6 [?]"

Credit LineGift of a Maryland Collector

Object number2005.24

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-7, Case 42

DescriptionThis glass vase is in a squat form with bulging sides blown in transparent greenish-amber glass with an almost spider web-like, irregular trailed thread running around the upper quarter, and applied lily pad drops running down the sides. The applications are iridescent gold and on a splotchy purplish-blue ground. The rim was hot-sheared and the bottom has a button pontil which has been ground and polished.

Label TextTiffany Studios American (1902-1932) Lava Vase, ca. 1908 Glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of a Maryland Collector 2005.24ProvenancePrivate collector; Dr. Richard Stark, Chrysler Museum of Art, Gift of a Maryland Collector, 2005 Published ReferencesRobert Koch, _Louis C. Tiffany's Art Glass_ (New York: Crown Publishers, 1977), 164. Similiar example of ornamentation. Hugh F. McKean, _The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany_ (Doubleday Publishing, 1980), fig. 175. Similiar example of ornamentation.