16 Facts About Tiffany glass

Tiffany glass refers to the many and varied types of glass developed and produced from 1878 to 1933 at the Tiffany Studios in New York, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and a team of other designers, including Clara Driscoll, Agnes F Northrop, and Frederick Wilson.

In 1865, Tiffany traveled to Europe, and in London he visited the Victoria and Albert Museum, whose extensive collection of Roman and Syrian glass made a deep impression on him.

Tiffany glass admired the coloration of medieval glass and was convinced that the quality of contemporary glass could be improved upon.

Some opalescent Tiffany glass was used by several stained Tiffany glass studios in England from the 1860s and 1870s onwards, notably Heaton, Butler and Bayne.

Opalescent glass is the basis for the range of glasses created by Tiffany.

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Favrile Tiffany glass often has a distinctive characteristic that is common in some Tiffany glass from Classical antiquity: it possesses a superficial iridescence.

Favrile Tiffany glass is distinguished by brilliant or deeply toned colors, usually iridescent like the wings of certain American butterflies, the necks of pigeons and peacocks, the wing covers of various beetles.

Streamers are prepared from very hot molten Tiffany glass, gathered at the end of a punty that is rapidly swung back and forth and stretched into long, thin strings that rapidly cool and harden.

Tiffany made use of such textured glass to represent, for example, foliage seen from a distance.

Irregular Tiffany glass wafers, called fractures, are prepared from very hot, colored molten Tiffany glass, gathered at the end of a blowpipe.

The resulting Tiffany glass bubble has paper-thin walls and is immediately shattered into shards.

Tiffany made use of such textured glass to represent, for example, twigs, branches and grass, and distant foliage.

Ring mottle Tiffany glass refers to sheet Tiffany glass with a pronounced mottle created by localized, heat-treated opacification and crystal-growth dynamics.

Tiffany's distinctive style exploited glass containing a variety of motifs such as those found in ring mottle glass, and he relied minimally on painted details.

When Tiffany Studio closed in 1928, the secret formula for making ring mottle glass was forgotten and lost.

Ring mottle Tiffany glass was re-discovered in the late sixties by Eric Lovell of Uroboros Glass.