After opening his private glassblowing complex in 1893, Louis Comfort Tiffany tasked glass chemist Arthur Nash with producing innovative new forms inspired by the natural world. The resulting Favrile Glass "Flower Form" Vases represent one of Tiffany's most successful business ventures; the vases were immediately popular with both American and European clientele and were produced from the 1890s, when the vases tended to be more free formed and botanically inspired, through to the 1920s, when both the materials and forms became more standardized.
This early Calyx Flower Form features all of the hallmarks of the early period of production. A pillowed domed foot formed by translucent golden yellow glass, with an iridized underside and soft vertical ribbing, is decorated with a pulled five-pointed leaf decoration in striated dark green glass. The stem, with pooled knob at the base, is formed by transparent pale green glass with fine striations in a darker green which rise up each of the three sides of the cup to form a pulled leaf with pointed tip, bordered by a thick band of gold glass with silvery blue iridescence, against a creamy white background.
This rare early Tiffany Favrile Glass Flower Form Vase is inscribed on the underside with date code.
Height: 13 inches (33 cm)
