Tiffany Glass
The name of Tiffany is virtually synonymous with American Art Nouveau art glass.
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Tiffany refined and developed the technique for iridizing
contemporary glass to produce and exclusive and now extremely valuable range of
trail blazing shapes and finishes.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was essentially a designer rather than
a glass maker, and it was the technical expertise of English glassmaker Arthur
J Nash with whom he collaborated at the Tiffany furnaces in New York, that
transformed Tiffany’s designs into the stunning glass that made Tiffany’s a
household name.
Tiffany’s Favrile range of iridescent art glass, launched in
1894, was an immediate success .
The glowing colours blue and gold are most common where
produced by spraying the surface of the molten glass with metallic lustres, and
were applied to truly innovate plant inspired Art Nouveau forms.
These included the distinctive Jack in the pulpit vase,
based on an iridescent wild flower, the goose neck vase that resembled a
Persian rose water sprinkler, and the magnificent but highly vulnerable and
valuable tall Floriiform vases with gently flaring ruffled rims.
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On other pieces, the naturalistic floral decoration was
created by painting the design on to the surface in metal oxides.
The lava range was inspired by the molten lava from a
volcano and decorated with iridescent molten trails that ran down the irregular
cracked iridescent surface.
Tiffany’s Cypriote range sought to recreate the pitted
iridescent surface found on ancient Roman glass.
I hope you have found this page on Tiffany Glass to be both informative and
helpful, please read my other pages on iridescent glass.
Happy hunting, from the collectibles coach
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