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Vase (USA)
This is a vase. It was produced by Tiffany and Co.. It is dated 1889 and we acquired it in 1976. Its medium is silver, gold, copper, and mixed metals. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Exhibited at the Paris International Exposition of 1889 with an ornamental base and cover (now missing), this vase represents a rare example of the "mokume" technique of mixing metals to look like marbling or wood graining. Developed centuries before in Japan, this difficult technique was also used by craftsmen of the Tiffany workshops for a small number of objects made there in the late nineteenth century ("The Cooper-Hewitt Collection: A Design Resource," March 26, 1991 - August 30, 1992).
This object was
donated by
Mrs. M. Allison Coudert.
It is credited Gift of the daughters of Louis deBébian Moore.
- Drawing, Textile Design: Japonisme
- brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper.
- Museum Purchase.
- 1982-50-1
- Mark Hopkins House Side Chair
- rosewood, inlaid and veneered with various woods, silk (of the period but not....
- 2010-5-1
- Matchsafe (USA)
- hammered silver, copper, brass.
- Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
- 1980-14-1296
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Brooch
- gold, silver, copper, nickel silver (argentan).
- The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- 2016-34-82
- Vase (USA)
- favrile glass.
- Gift of Thomas Carnase.
- 1984-108-1
Its dimensions are
H x diam.: 50.2 x 23.5 cm (19 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Vase (USA); Produced by Tiffany and Co. (United States); silver, gold, copper, and mixed metals; H x diam.: 50.2 x 23.5 cm (19 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.); Gift of the daughters of Louis deBébian Moore; 1976-58-1-a/f
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Passion for the Exotic: Japonism and Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest.
