This wide-mouthed favrile pottery vase by Tiffany Studios features an unusually elaborate frieze-like decoration of interlocking circlular bands in the style of a Celtic interlace, each segment encapsulating a distinct avian motif, ranging from a pair of owls to a resplendent eagle - there are no repeats.
Low, wide favrile pottery vases of this size and shape were often originally designed as lamp bases in the early years of production, when Tiffany Lamps were primarily powered by oil fuel. The wide mouth would accommodate an oil canister. As time went on and the company transitioned to electric power, these designs were produced as decorative vases and Tiffany Studios began to produce thin-stemmed bronze electric lamp bases.
A version of this vase in a similar blue glaze is in the permanent collection of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida.
Height: 5 ½ inches (13.97 cm)
Diameter: 7 ¾ inches (19.685 cm)
