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Vase, 1912
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933)
American
Tiffany Furnaces (1902–1928)
Favrile glass, H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Inscribed: (on underside) 8319 J. L. C. Tiffany Favrile
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 1951 (51.121.4)
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This "cypriote" vase differs from its earlier versions in its
more consistent coloration. Cypriote vases were produced in either
in gold or blue. When Tiffany lent a pair of them to the Museum
in 1925, he described them as "reproductions of antique glass."
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