Accession Number
1972/2.222

Title
Decanter

Artist(s)
Louis Comfort Tiffany

Object Creation Date
circa 1896-1900

Medium & Support
iridescent glass

Dimensions
10 11/16 x 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (27 x 14.5 x 14.5 cm);10 11/16 x 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (27 x 14.5 x 14.5 cm)

Credit Line
University purchase 1930, transferred to the Museum of Art, 1972/2.222

Label copy
In conversation with Jennifer Perry Thalheimer, Collections Manager, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL (6/27/06) comes the following information:
Those works initialed with L.C.T. or in which Tiffany's name is written out on the base does not indicated that Tiffany himself was responsible for the creation of the work. Although he passed design ideas to his artists, he did not personally oversee the creation of all of his works. As other favrile glass artists began to compete with Tiffany, the initials may have been just to establish that the work came from the Tiffany company studio.
There is work ongoing about the numbers on paper labels or etched into the bases of Tiffany glass works to establish what they might indicate as to dating, style, inventory, etc.

Primary Object Classification
Decorative Arts

Primary Object Type
glass

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
decanters
glass
modern and contemporary art