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A 9 inches tall Louis Comfort Tiffany elegant form shape vase, dating from about 1910. This vase, with a pattern of trailing vines and green leaves of iridescent gold glass, is in very good condition and free from chips, cracks, or repairs. Signed 1483 L and L.C.Tiffany -Favrile. "When Tiffany filed for a patent in 1880 for making a decorative iridescent glass which he was later to call Favrile after the old English word fabrile meaning "made by hand", he was by no means the first. Iridescence was not new when he began his experiments. Iridescent glass, which became almost as much a trademark of Art Nouveau as the whiplash curve, came into being probably at mid-century with a craze for antique glass dug up at Pompeii and Rome." - Tiffany Glass by Mario Amaya |
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