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

Gooseneck Sprinkler

Manufacturer Tiffany Furnaces (American, 1902 - 1920)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1898-1899

MediumBlown glass

Dimensions12 × 4 1/8 in. (30.5 × 10.5 cm)

InscribedEngraved around wafer pontil: "L.C.T.-M4374" and Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co. paper label on wafer pontil.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6304

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Out on Loan

DescriptionThis vase's shape is actually based on that of a Persian rosewater sprinkler. It is sometimes referred to as a "gooseneck" vase. Neck has blue vertical streaks with a band diagonal near the top. In bone color. The top of the neck is cased with gold stain. Bulbous parts of gold iridescent with blue streaks becoming green and diagonally pulled.

Label TextTiffany Furnaces Corona, New York Gooseneck Sprinkler, ca. 1900 Blown glass; tooled Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.6304 Approved By: ERLExhibition HistoryDayton Art Institute. "The Lines of Art Nouveau" exhibition, 10/25/83-1/29/84. "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (Part I: 1900-1950)," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, April 22 - September 5, 1999. "The Arts in Europe around 1900," Musee d'Orsay, March 14 - June 26, 2000. "Louis C. Tiffany: Master of Glass," Musée du Luxembourg, September 16, 2009- January 10, 2010; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, February 11 - May 2, 2010; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 5 - August 29, 2010.Published ReferencesSotheby & Parke-Bernet. _Art at Auction Catalogue_. 1966-1967, ill. in color, pg. 213, item #13. Paul E. Doros. _The Tiffany Collection of the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_. Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1977. #50. Norman Potter. _Tiffany Glass_. Octopus Books Limited: New York, 1988, ill. Philippe Thiébaut, et al. 1900. _Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris_. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux. 2000. Color illustration, p. 305 Dr. Robert Koch, _Louis C. Tiffany: The Collected Works of Robert Koch_. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 2001, 194. Rosalind Pepall de Mestral, Louis C. Tiffany: Le Maître du Verre, (France: Gallimard, 2009).