Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

An impressive early 20th Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with green hearts shining through an attractive golden iridescence, signed L C Tiffany Favrile and numbered to base. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 23 cm Condition: Very Good Condition Circa: 1905 Materials: Iridescent Coloured Glass SKU: 6667 ABOUT Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis 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 Art Nouveau 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. Early Life He was born in New York City, New York, the son of Charles Lewis 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. Career Louis 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 Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. 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. In 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. A 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. In 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. In 1889 at the Paris Exposition, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha. In 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 Favrilein 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 The Four Seasons He trademarked Favrile (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...

vase, Josef Hoffmann, Johann Loetz Witwe, Weiss Opal außen Schwarz decoration, glass, mould-blown, etched, ca. 1911 Hoffmann's vase designs from the 1910s are characterized above al...

GUSTAV GURSCHNER (Austrian, 1873-1970), a sculptor, attended the School of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1888. Working under several artists, his time in Paris in 1897 proved to be most ...

A stunning and monumental example of Kayserzinn pewter, an exceptional piece for the collector. This antique art nouveau Jugendstil pewter tankard is stamped "Kayserzinn 4010" and wa...

Wonderful French lady figure Art Nouveau ormolu-mounted gilt bronze crystal vase Measures: 11" tall.  

German Kayserzinn pewter wine/water pitcher or jug with Art Nouveau style low relief iris decoration centered by a Devils head under the spout and a ...

Striking tapered gold aurene art glass vase made by Lundberg Studios, California. Signed in 2000, this vase has a beautiful finish and is in good cond...

Beautiful vase in swirl Titania glass and overlay silver, This is a rare antique vase.

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French majolica vase designed by De Longwy. This is a very nice elaborated tall vase, created in France during the art nouveau period, back in the 1890's. The fabulous decorative va...

Lovely little Emile Galle multi layered cameo glass vase decorated with an aquatic scene around the bottom section of the vase with pond lilies and reeds. The tops section interestin...

Zsolnay factory tulip vase. 80s reissue by Miss Eszter Jorok. Numbered 5495. Vase from the 1899 Tulip series. Vase in perfect condition, note a small c...

French purple Majolica Cache Pot Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1890. Height / 3.8 inches. Diameter / 5.8 inches.

This stunning vase was made by Thurn Teplitz Porcelain, with support from designer Ernst Wahliss (1837 - 1900). The vase is in amphora shape, hand painted and has the early mark on the underside. The porcelain vase is ivory colored with light green and brown painting...

French Art Nouveau green cameo glass vase cut with leafy branch relief design. Signed: Daum Nancy. The Daum family worked at the beginning of Art Nouveau and creators of one of ...

Austrian Jugendstil, floral glass vase, manufactured by Johann Loetz Witwe, red, green, orange, gold, circa 1902, "Cytisus Neuroth" decoration, bohemian glass, Austria The "Cytisu...

A rare, very large, and impressive antique Rookwood and Gorham mantel vase by Amelia Sprague. It features Art Nouveau style pinecone / pine tree theme with sterling silver overlaid ...

Small purple French Majolica iris oval jardiniere signed Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1900. The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They pr...

The Cyclamen perfume bottle is a strong Art Nouveau example of R.Lalique ‘s style in the begin of the 20th Century. The butterfly Ladies are represented on the different surfaces of...

Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Cameo Mold Blown Glass Vase « Fleurs de Pommier » circa 1910 Beautiful and very rare Art Nouveau molded-blowned g...

Porcelain vase white porcelain with glossy glaze, designed by Siegmund Schütz in 1951.

Cameo Glass Polar Bear Vase Émile Gallé Circa 1927 This towering Art Nouveau vase stands as one of the finest achievements of Émile Gallé’s iconic gla...

Daum Pate de Verre Amaryllis Vase in pinks and greens. This piece is signed Daum, France and numbered 94. This piece has been retired and is no longer in production. Since 1878,...

This cachepot is crafted from high-quality ceramic, typically Majolica or Barbotine, known for its vibrant, glossy glaze. The glaze gives the piece a lustrous sheen and adds depth an...

Finest Bohemian Art Nouveau Glass Vase: Mould blown glass on flush stand, three-part ground plan, the three-sided body rising up and narrowing slightly towards the top, twisted once ...

This is a Lalique Crystal Mesange flower vase. It depicts a vase with an hexagonal base followed by a stem shaped as a wreath. The wreath is made of periwinkles flowers decorated in the center by two chickadees birds...

Rare Museum-Quality Pokal with "Nordic" Pattern – over 100 years old! This exceptional Norwegian Heritage antique pokal, dating from the early 1900s, features a hand-painted overgla...

Emile Gallé Art Nouveau Acid etched and cameo three color glass vase. Rose flowers are window pained and let delicate lights waves through in a translucent effect, This is a rather l...

A three pieces set of a cachepot and two vases in olive green ceramic decorated with flowers in the Barbotine style faiançe with Interior in bluish green ceramic. 'B FRANCE 50_2 ' ma...

Sgraffito vase decorated with a floral motif, by Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg. Sgraffito is a way of combinding two layers into a pattern, the second layer is scrapt of and left is a...

This Bohemian crystal glass vase was crafted in the late 19th century by Fredrich Egermann manufactory. This splendid glass vase has been finely engraved with the grindstone to depic...

French Majolica oval jardiniere attributed to Delphin Massier, circa 1890. The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They produced an incre...

This Tiffany Studios New York centerpiece, features deep-blue green iridescent Favrile glass, decorated with a iridescent green leaf and vine decoration. The charming piece features ...

Rare small majolica daisy cache pot signed Delphin Massier, circa 1890.

Delightful Art Nouveau Belgium stoneware studio pottery vase circa 1940s. Round shaped low vase with an opening to its flat top. Decorated with smatterings of appliqué petals on a tw...

Art Nouveau glass vase with engraved silver overlay by historic Loetz, ca 1900. Baluster with silver meandering leafing branch. Glass iridescent gold and purple with vertical oleagin...

Meiji period, Large Satsuma Porcelain vase, decorated with dragon and floral pattern.  

Large French Majolica Tulip Vase Jean Massier Circa 1900. H / 13 inches.

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Secessionist Art Nouveau porcelain vase. Tall highly decorated porcelain vase, created in Czechoslovakia, circa 1920. This beautiful pieces has been crafted in white porcelain hav...

Cameo Glass Elephant Vase Émile Gallé Circa 1925 This monumental Art Nouveau vase is one of the finest achievements of Émile Gallé’s iconic glassmaking firm. Showcasing Gallé’s mast...

Loetz Pampas Glass And Metal Mounted Vase Czech Republic Circa 1900 Unmarked Height: 7.5 Inches, handle to handle 8.25 Inches Condition: Very good with wear commensurate of age and use with some loss to gilt, The Loetz glassworks existed in Klostermuhle, Austria, for just over a hundred years, starting from 1840. But its heyday was during the life-time of Max Ritter Von Spaun, grandson of the original Johann Loetz who had founded the company. Von Spaun took over the company in 1879 and ran it until 1908, a year before his death. He was assisted by Eduard Prochaska, his technical specialist, and together they invented, designed and produced a whole series of wonderful new types of glass, taking out several patents and winning awards at all the major world exhibitions during the 1890's and the first years of the new century. The Loetz company were amongst the leaders in Art Nouveau design and expecially in irridescent art glass. "Papillon" glass, like the vase on the left, is sometimes known today as "oil spot" glass. Another favourite Loetz colouring was irridized glass with pulled trails called "Phenomenon" glass. There were irridized vases with ribbons of metallic colours winding over the surface, and many spectacular designs with applied trails of beautiful colours, or simply pulled out of the body of the glass to form handles or decoration. About 1900 the company started collaborating with outside designers, and some great artists designed pieces for Lotz, notably Joseph Hofmann, Koloman Moser, Maria Kirchner, and Hofstatter. In 1908 Loetz was taken over by Max Von Spaun's son, also called Max, and although it struggled financially (going through bankruptcy in 1911 and again in 1931) there were several great designers whose work was produced by Loetz during those years and through the art deco period. These included Adolf Beckert...

Montjoye vase, thistle design, iridescent glass, 1900, Art Nouveau. Vase with thistle decoration, Vase Montjoye, iridescent glass, 1900, Art Nouveau period. H: 45.5cm, W: 19cm, D: 12cm

This stunning antique German cast iron Christmas tree stand features a richly detailed design, adorned with angel and cherub motifs. The cylindrical ...

This is a large hand blown emerald green opaque glass vase with applied open work copper overlay decoration, which is likely to have been manufactured i...

Vase Sign: Muller Freres Luneville acid worked Muller Feres The heart of the company was formed by five brothers (Henri, Desire, Eugene, Pierre, Victor) from a glass making family wh...

Established in 1853 by Miklós Zsolnay, Zsolnay began as a small business producing basic stoneware and earthenware. Ten years later Miklós’ son, Vilmos, joined the company and led it...

Antique Art Nouveau chalice shaped art glass vase created by the Loetz glassworks company, which was active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this vase represents a prime example of their artistic mastery. The vase features a cobalt blue ground that adds depth and richness to its overall appearance. Its surface showcases a captivating iridescent wave pattern, which adds a mesmerizing shimmer and dynamic quality to the glass. This iridescence is a hallmark of Loetz glassware and is achieved through the application of special techniques during the glassblowing process. The chalice-form of the vase gives it an elegant and graceful silhouette. This design creates a harmonious balance between the visually striking upper portion and the sturdy base. Loetz glasswares are renowned for their exceptional artistry and their ability to capture and play with light. The Phaenomen Genre 6893 vase, with its dark blue color and iridescent wave pattern, is no exception. When light interacts with the glass, it reveals a captivating range of colors and reflections, making it a visually stunning and attention-grabbing piece. As an antique Loetz glass vase...

A beautiful tulip vase in opalescent pinkish-orange marigold carnival glass. The glass is almost iridescent. The color has marigold iridescence. It is wonderful. This vase is very de...

Vintage art glass bud vase features multicolored fused glass decor with iridescent finish. Strong, graphic abstract pattern flows along the lines of minimally shaped cylindrical vase...

VERY BEAUTIFUL VASE IN 3 COLORS OF GLASS PASTE - VERY BEAUTIFUL ACID DECORATION OF A GRASSHOUSE SIGNATURE GALLE AS A CAMEO IN THE DECOR – ART NOUVEAU PERIOD Perfect condition Height ...

A very stylish Austrian Art Nouveau handled vase with large layered leaf patterning by Paul Dachsel for Alexandra Porcelain Works Turn-Teplitz and dating from the early 20th century....

The Legras vases, from around 1900, feature white glass overlaid with violet and green, etched with delicate wisteria motifs. Signed by the renowned French glassmaker Legras, these v...

A simply beautiful pair of tulip-shaped Bohemian glass vases in emerald green, in the Art Nouveau style. Dating from the end of the 19th Century, these stunning vases feature an unco...

Emille Galle (1846-1904). Émile Gallé was a French glass maker and furniture designer, who had his home in his native Nancy. His favourite topic, which he frequently used in his wor...

An attractive late 19th Century French cameo glass souffle vase decorated with raised deep red and burgundy flowers against a variegating yellow field. Exhibiting excellent detail an...

A fine antique Art Nouveau amphora vase. With matte & enamel peony flowers painted over a matte forest scene ground. Form no. 523. From th...

An attractive early 20th-century cameo glass vase acid cut and hand etched with birds, floral and foliage decor in a deep brown against a pink background, exhibiting excellent hand-f...