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Bowl, 1908
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) American
Tiffany Furnaces (1902–1928)
Favrile glass, H. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
Inscribed: (on underside) 21A/L.C. Tiffany-Favrile
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gift of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation, 1951 (51.121.13)
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This large open bowl is forward-looking in its organic irregular
shape. Its free form gives the appearance of having been dictated
by the movement of the molten glass itself. Of a type called Lava,
or "volcanic," glass, its characteristic thick surface of smooth
gold and rough blackened areas recall the hot molten rock spilling
from the rim of a volcano.
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