  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
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
