Rare Floriform Vase, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios New York, 1906, Favrile glass, signed
Bib.: Alastair Duncan “Louis C. Tiffany – The Garden Museum Collection”. p. 222-226; Tessa Paul – “Louis Comfort Tiffany” p. 69; Vivienne Couldrey – “The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany”p.133
Vases of the “floriform” type range among the most desired glasses, were complicated to produce and therefore very expensive even around 1900. Tiffany’s objects d’art were often inspired by floral motives in this case it depicts a reduced blooming flower.
Bib.: R. Koch, “Tiffany and his glassworks”, s. 96, nr. 85; Jacob Baal-Teshuva, “Louis Comfort Tiffany”, p. 263; Museum for arts & crafts in Hamburg, “Louis C. Tiffany – Masterworks of the American Art Nouveau”, front cover and p. 113
In 1880, Louis Comfort Tiffany founded the "Associated Artists", in partnership with Lockwood De Forest, specialist in furniture and woodwork, Candace Wheeler, designer and textile specialist, and the painter Samuel Colman. The partnership has produced all kinds of decorative objects, including lighting, flooring, windows, mosaics and furniture. Together, the members of this partnership decorated many famous homes and buildings, including Mark Twain's home in Hartford, the former White House lobby, and the Veterans Room in the Park Avenue Armory. Later, Tiffany built large workshops with glass furnaces in Corona in Queens, New York. Together with Arthur Nash, a trained master glassmaker from Stourbridge, the desire grew to concentrate on glass art. These efforts led to the dissolution of the "Associated Artists" in 1885. In the same year, Tiffany founded his own glassmaking company, the "Tiffany Glass Company", which became known as "Tiffany Studios" in 1902. There, the high-quality glass products, for which Tiffany became so famous, were designed and produced under his own strict supervision and high quality standards. The Tiffany Studios in New York closed in 1930, three years before L. C. Tiffany's death.
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