This Decorated Tiffany Favrile Glass Flower Form Vase is formed by a base of gold iridescent glass. The inverted teardrop form of the body features a slightly everted rim, with the rounded body tapering to a thin knobbed stem supported by a flat rounded foot.
This example features an all-over motif of thin, swirling vines with small, heart-shaped leaves in variegated green swirled with white, suggesting three-dimensionality of the leaves. This example features deeply saturated all-over surface iridescence, which ranges from magenta toned across the body of the vase to silvery blue on the stem and foot.
In a period photo dated to 1914-17 documenting the flower forms produced under the supervision of Leslie Nash, held in the Nash archives at the Rakow Research Library at the Corning Museum of Glass, this particular form is labeled as the Narcissus flower form. In Nash’s notebooks, also held by Rakow, a hand-drawn illustration of this particular form, also listed as Narcissus, is accompanied by the notation that it was “very beautiful” and “always on order.”
This piece of original Tiffany glass is signed on the underside.
Height: 12 inches (30.5 cm)
Reference:
Martin Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty (Lillian Nassau LLC, New York: 2007), pg. 82 fig. 100, pg. 84
