DOI Heft:
No. 63 (June, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Waern, Cecilia: The industrial arts of America, [2]: Tiffany or ''Favrille'' glass
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21969#0033
Tiffany Glass
the large simple drops and eggs seem to me to
be unsurpassed in beauty and fitness. It is
delightful to prowl round in the lamp-room and
watch the shifting effects brought out by moving
the electric lights from one globe to another.
These effects may be delicate—a silvery globe
with a slight pattern of trailing reddish threads,
and the faintest gleam of green playing round
the pearly film that clouds some parts of the globe.
Or they may be strong, blood-red marbles, veined
with gold. They have always, somehow, the
reserve and chastity of a priceless material.
The vases fall into several distinct groups. The
oldest type produced are the “ flower motives,” so
called because the shapes suggest the forms, open
or closed, of crocus, tulip, or a flower marked
with delicate veinings. The vases of this type
are generally tall and slender, the colouring light,
favrile glass vase
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY LOUIS C. TIFFANY
with a preference for exquisite green and white
effects. The mass, clear or semi-clear, is here
inlaid with threads and veins of different colours,
pulled and twisted by hooks into capricious wavy
patterns while the glass is still in a molten state.
LAMP
DESIGNED BY LOUIS C. TIFFANY
The little lamp, here illustrated, shows a specr
men of super-imposed glass where the pieces are
obtained by combining layers of glass differently
charged with metals; in some cases so heavily
charged that the glass has taken on the appearance
of a metal rather than that of a glass.
The vases speak for themselves. The reproduc-
tions give a hint of the qualities of iridescence and
texture. Some of the pearly-white pieces, rich in
iridescence, come nearer the beauties produced by
decomposition of antique glass. Indeed they have
been produced as a result of scientific study of the
causes of these beautiful phenomena. Many ex-
quisite variations would still call for notice, but I
can only mention one : the peacock glass. This is
“made of five different varieties, namely, two of
aventurine, two of transparent, and two of opaque.”
This is the latest variety published to the world, and
the large simple drops and eggs seem to me to
be unsurpassed in beauty and fitness. It is
delightful to prowl round in the lamp-room and
watch the shifting effects brought out by moving
the electric lights from one globe to another.
These effects may be delicate—a silvery globe
with a slight pattern of trailing reddish threads,
and the faintest gleam of green playing round
the pearly film that clouds some parts of the globe.
Or they may be strong, blood-red marbles, veined
with gold. They have always, somehow, the
reserve and chastity of a priceless material.
The vases fall into several distinct groups. The
oldest type produced are the “ flower motives,” so
called because the shapes suggest the forms, open
or closed, of crocus, tulip, or a flower marked
with delicate veinings. The vases of this type
are generally tall and slender, the colouring light,
favrile glass vase
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY LOUIS C. TIFFANY
with a preference for exquisite green and white
effects. The mass, clear or semi-clear, is here
inlaid with threads and veins of different colours,
pulled and twisted by hooks into capricious wavy
patterns while the glass is still in a molten state.
LAMP
DESIGNED BY LOUIS C. TIFFANY
The little lamp, here illustrated, shows a specr
men of super-imposed glass where the pieces are
obtained by combining layers of glass differently
charged with metals; in some cases so heavily
charged that the glass has taken on the appearance
of a metal rather than that of a glass.
The vases speak for themselves. The reproduc-
tions give a hint of the qualities of iridescence and
texture. Some of the pearly-white pieces, rich in
iridescence, come nearer the beauties produced by
decomposition of antique glass. Indeed they have
been produced as a result of scientific study of the
causes of these beautiful phenomena. Many ex-
quisite variations would still call for notice, but I
can only mention one : the peacock glass. This is
“made of five different varieties, namely, two of
aventurine, two of transparent, and two of opaque.”
This is the latest variety published to the world, and