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.
Marking: [engraved on underside]: L.C.T. 155 A
Helen Palmer Andrus, Sarasota, Florida, until 1997.
Artist: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York) Date: 1866 or 1868Medium: Watercolor and gouache on tan paperAccession: 1992.66.2On view in:Not on view
Artist: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York) Date: 1922Medium: Watercolor sketching boards with window-shaped mounts with text in graphiteAccession: 1992.67bOn view in:Not on view
Artist: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York) Date: ca. 1911–15Medium: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on off-white artist boardAccession: 67.653.2On view in:Not on view
Artist: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York) Date: ca. 1915Medium: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, aluminum paint and bronze powder ink, and graphite on artist board with original shaped window matAccession: 67.654.10On view in:Not on view
Artist: Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York) Date: ca. 1915Medium: Watercolor, gouache, aluminum paint and bronze powder metallic ink on artist board with original shaped window matAccession: 67.654.12On view in:Not on view