Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009

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Floriform vase

about 1904
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Made by Tiffany Furnaces
Overall: 33 x 12.7 cm (13 x 5 in.)
Favrile glass

Classification: Glass

Object Place: Corona, Long Island, New York

Accession number: 2008.1504

Location: Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Gallery (The Aesthetic Movement, 1870–1900)

Description: A thin stem with a slight center bulb rises from a circular foot and is surmounted by a tulip-shaped bowl with undulating edges. The glass of the base and stem is iridescent while that of the bowl is striated white and green in imitation of natural veining

Provenance/Ownership History: 1904, wedding gift to Laura Hand and Hamilton Farnham of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (wedding date: September 27, 1904); 2000, to Patsy Chappell of Cambridge, Massachusetts, by inheritance; 2008, to the MFA by gift of Patsy Chappell (Accession Date: December 17, 2008)

Gift of Patricia P. Chappell and family