The form of this monumental Tiffany Favrile Pottery Vase was likely initially intended by Tiffany Studios for use as a base for Tiffany lamps. As time went on, the company began to produce these pieces as standalone items; this vase, which is not drilled, was always meant to be a decorative object.
The simple form serves to showcase the company’s rare and desirable variegated ultramarine blue and turquoise glaze.
An example of this form in a different glaze that was part of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s private collection is in the permanent collection of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida (77-042).
Height: 15 ½ inches (40 cm)
Related example illustrated:
Martin Eidelberg, Tiffany Favrile Pottery and the Quest of Beauty, Lillian Nassau LLC, New York: 2010, pg. 37 fig. 58
