Vase with Cyclamens

ca. 1906

Tiffany Favrile Pottery , Artist Tiffany Studios , Manufacturer

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About the Artwork

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s company Tiffany Studios is best known for its glassware — windows, lamps, and vessels. But for several years, mainly between 1905 and 1910, the company also produced art pottery.
Stylized cyclamens cover the surface of this elegant vase — their leaves form a frieze around the base and their stems rise to the top where a second ring of leaves encircles the opening. Almost all known examples of Tiffany pottery were cast from molds, so this hand-thrown and carved piece may be a prototype for a design that was never put into production. Most green-colored Tiffany ceramics were fired with two glazes — a darker green glaze over a more transparent and glossier green underglaze. The color of vase is unusual because it was fired with only the shiny underglaze.

Title Vase with Cyclamens

Artwork Date ca. 1906

Makers Tiffany Favrile Pottery (Artist) American, 1903 - 1917 Tiffany Studios (Manufacturer) American, 1902-1932

Medium Glazed earthenware

Dimensions Overall: 7 3/4 inches (19.7 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Museum Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2011.22

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Inscriptions Inscribed: P1176 L.C. Tiffany - Favrile Pottery

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Eidelberg, Martin. Tiffany Favrile Pottery and the Quest of Beauty. New York, p. 44 (fig. 68).

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Tiffany Favrile Pottery; Tiffany Studios, Vase with Cyclamens, ca. 1906, glazed earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, 2011.22.