This miniature Decorated Tiffany Favrile Glass Flower Form Vase is formed by a base of Tiffany Studios’ famed gold iridescent glass. The inverted teardrop form features a slightly everted rim, with the rounded body tapering to a thin knobbed stem supported by a flat rounded foot. The vase is decorated with a motif of thin, swirling vines and small, heart-shaped leaves in a contrasting variegated light green glass.
In a period photo from Tiffany Studios dated to 1914-17 documenting the flower forms produced under the supervision of Leslie Nash, in the collection of 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 original Tiffany Favrile Glass Flower Form is inscribed on the underside with signature and date code.
Height: 6 ¼ inches (15.9 cm)
Reference:
Martin Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty (Lillian Nassau LLC, New York: 2007), pg. 82 fig. 100, pg. 84 fig. 104.
