{"product_id":"tiffany-glass-favrille-vase","title":"\"Favrille Vase\" by Tiffany Glass","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"is-sold show-me\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn impressive early 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with excellent petrol blue iridescence against a rich blue background, with everted rim and circular foot, signed \u003cem\u003eL C Tiffany Favrile \u003c\/em\u003eand numbered to base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"is-sold show-me\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eSorry, this item has been sold. If you would like information about similar items please contact us on 07971850405 or make an enquiry via\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #d5a6bd;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #d5a6bd;\" href=\"mailto:david@hickmet.com?Subject=Out%20Of%20Stock\" target=\"_top\"\u003eemail here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eADDITIONAL INFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeight:                                      23.5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e                                    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border-top: dotted 1px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition:                              Very Good Condition with slight signs of wear\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border-top: dotted 1px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCirca:                                         1905\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border-top: dotted 1px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaterials:                                Iridescent Coloured Glass \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border-top: dotted 1px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSKU:                                            6304\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border-top: dotted 1px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accordion-heading\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"accordion-heading\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Comfort Tiffany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLouis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Art Nouveau Sculpture - Hickmet Fine Arts\" href=\"https:\/\/hickmet.myshopify.com\/collections\/art-nouveau-sculptures\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArt Nouveau\u003c\/a\u003e and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was born in New York City, New York, the son of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/press.tiffany.com\/ViewBackgrounder.aspx?backgrounderId=8\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCharles Lewis\u003c\/a\u003e Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866-67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868-69. Belly’s landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCareer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLouis started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLouis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists\u003c\/i\u003e. The business was short-lived, lasting only four years. The group made designs for wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. He later opened his own glass factory in Corona, New York, determined to provide designs that improved the quality of contemporary glass. Tiffany’s leadership and talent, as well as his father’s money and connections, led this business to thrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. He worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding an opalescent floor-to-ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. The Tiffany screen and other Victorian additions were all removed in the Roosevelt renovations of 1902, which restored the White House interiors to Federal style in keeping with its architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the beginning of his career, he used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed the “copper foil” technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany’s chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1889 at the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Paris Exhibition of 1889\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris_Exhibition_of_1889\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eParis Exposition\u003c\/a\u003e, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hickmet.myshopify.com\/collections\/emile-galle\" title=\"Emile Galle - Antique Glass - Hickmet Fine Arts\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eÉmile Gallé\u003c\/a\u003e, French\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Art Nouveau Sculpture - Hickmet Fine Arts\" href=\"https:\/\/hickmet.myshopify.com\/collections\/art-nouveau-sculptures\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArt Nouveau\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eartisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893, his company also introduced the term\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFavrile\u003c\/i\u003ein conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Four Seasons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe trademarked\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFavrile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(from the old French word for handmade) on November 13, 1894. He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. His first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany lamp as well as for other creations.\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-tws16nov21_17-0\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTiffany interiors also made considerable use of mosaics. The mosaics workshop, largely staffed by women, was overseen until 1898 by the Swiss-born sculptor and designer Jacob Adolphus Holzer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1902, he became the first Design Director for Tiffany \u0026amp; Co., the jewelry company founded by his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1911 saw the installation of an enormous glass curtain fabricated for the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. It is considered by some to be a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTiffany used all his skills in the design of his own house, the 84-room Laurelton Hall, in the village of Laurel Hollow, on Long Island, New York completed in 1905. Later this estate was donated to his foundation for art students along with 60 acres (243,000 m²) of land, sold in 1949, and destroyed by a fire in 1957.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e","brand":"20TH CENTURY GLASS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33180050784355,"sku":"6304","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2614\/8594\/products\/TiffanyGlassFavrilleVase6304x.jpg?v=1602838461","url":"https:\/\/hickmet.com\/products\/tiffany-glass-favrille-vase","provider":"Hickmet Fine Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}