Tiffany Glass

Tiffany Glass 

The name of Tiffany is virtually synonymous with American Art Nouveau art glass.

Tiffany Glass 

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 .

Tiffany Glass 

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.

Tiffany Glass 

On less complex forms, the decoration included the trademark but technically complex peacock pattern, feathering, tooled threading, and patterns created by marvering hot glass into the surface of the vase to create the trailing leaf and flower shapes favoured in art Nouveau.

On other pieces, the naturalistic floral decoration was created by painting the design on to the surface in metal oxides.

Tiffany Glass 

Other iridescent ranges had experimental textured surfaces.

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.

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