Vase

Designed by Louis C. Tiffany American
 Attributed to Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company American
 Tiffany Furnaces American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 743

This so-called jack-in-the-pulpit vase is one of the quintessential shapes in Tiffany's oeuvre of blown glass. Essentially a flower form, it has a flattened globular base resembling a bulb rising into a slender stalk to an open blossom with a ruffled rim. The outer rim has a feathery appearance, as if the iridescence on the surface developed shallow fissures when the molten blossom was expanded to its final form.

Vase, Designed by Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Favrile glass, American

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