The Metropolitan Museum of Art Decorative Accents*Louis C. Tiffany Gladioli Rectangular Glass Frame

Radiant Spears Of White Gladioli Reach Along Our Elegant Glass Frame Inspired By The Art Nouveau Decoration On A Favrile Vase (Ca. 1909) By Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933). In The 1890S, The Gilded Age Designer Developed A Method Of Blending Colors In Glass While It Was Still In A Molten State. The Iridescent Results, Which He Named “Favrile” After The Old English Fabrile, Meaning “Hand-Wrought,” Allowed For Subtle Effects Of Shading And Texture. The Designer Never Sold This Vessel, Now At The Met; Rather, He Kept It In His Own Collection.