vase

• glass collection

• design: Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York City
• manufacturer: Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York City, about 1899

• Jugendstil,
• Modern,

• Tischkultur

• glass ,
• blown,
• iridescet,
• layered,
• flashing,

• diameter: 12.1 cm
• height: 22.9 cm

• GL 2020

• purchase, 1899-12-01

• Glass and Ceramics Collection

• signature (reverse side) : Louis C. Tiffany 04568

The influence of the US-made glass products by Louis Comfort Tiffany, who was trained as a painter, extended to the development of Art Nouveau glass in Europe. And Tiffany’s glassblowing operations, for their part, absorbed important artistic impulses from his visit to Paris for the Exposition Universelle in 1889: like the French glass artists of the École de Nancy, Tiffany also desired to have his glass items viewed as works of art, and his iridescent Favrile glass decors were to eventually become synonymous with Tiffany products in general. The company Johann Lötz Witwe in the community of today’s Klášterský Mlýn (CZE) located in the South Bohemian Forest, had already experimented with iridescent glass independently of Tiffany during the 1870s and 1880s, and the manufacturing process for its Phänomen-Glas, patented in 1898, must have been very similar to the process developed by the Americans. When it commenced production, Lötz did produce actual copies of glass objects made by Tiffany. (Franz, Rainald)

on display

• vase, Louis Comfort Tiffany, MAK Inv.nr. GL 2020

• https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/vase_35468

• 06.12.2024