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hole, a name that Fill in the blanks, using the clues and the words below. Domestic A TIMELESS RECIPE pays honor to the 1. The first furnace used in the glassblowing process. beautiful object To make glass, mix the following ingredients: that will eventu- Treasures • Sand 2. The term used to describe Tiffany’s vases and tableware. ally emerge from Tiffany Art Glass for the Public • Soda ash the furnace. FAMILY GUIDE • Limestone Once a glass 3. The reheating furnace used in glassblowing. Heat to 2,500 degrees. object is com- the charles hosmer morse museum of american art pleted, it must 4. The main ingredient of glass. WHAT’S HOT, WHAT’S NOT be placed in an annealing ouis Comfort Tiffany (1848 – 1933) was one of the Temperature is so important in oven to cool. This oven allows 5. The team leader in glassblowing. most important and influential American artists of finished pieces of glass to cool glassmaking that three furnaces gradually over time. If glass the late 1800s and early 1900s. are used in the process. After 6. The term Tiffany used that means handmade. L the dry ingredients of glass are objects are not annealed, they In 1893, Tiffany introduced his “art

combined together, the mix- will crack or break. 7. The tool used by artisans to make hollow vessels. glass” to the general public. This ture is heated in an enormous furnace known as a working CREATING BLOWN GLASS art glass represented the highest furnace. The dry mixture is Glassblowing is a team activ- 8. The modern-day name of the area where glassmaking was invented. achievement in taste and style and ity that employs the talents then heated to 2,500 degrees of many artisans. Typically, followed Tiffany’s work with glass tiles, Fahrenheit to properly fuse the 9. A naturally-occurring form of glass. individual components of glass a group of seven makes up glass moldings, and leaded-glass

together and transform it into a one shop in the glassblowing 10. A tool used by artisans while finishing a blown-glass object. windows. Tiffany’s art glass, including hot molten mixture. industry. The boss within vases and tableware, helped Tiffany When working with glass, this shop is known as a it is important that the glass gaffer, which is an old word 11. A group of seven makes up one of these. achieve his goal of providing a greater for grandfather. stay at a constant 1,800 degrees. number of people with something So while working with glass, 12. Tiffany glass inspired by archaeological digs. artisans use a small reheating beautiful for their homes. furnace known as the glory art glass gaffer pontil rod Left: Louis Comfort blowpipe glory hole sand Tiffany (1848-1933). GLASSBLOWING BASICS Cypriote Iraq shop Right: Decanter, • First, an artisan collects a gob of Favrile obsidian working furnace 1898. Luster glass, molten glass, known as a gather, Tiffany Studios (66-010). from the working furnace on the end of a metal blowpipe, a long, usually five-foot, hollow rod. • Next, the molten glass is blown, rolled, pulled, and manipulated with various tools into the shape desired. During this phase, the object makes frequent trips to the glory hole. WHAT’S IN A NAME? Tiffany chose one word to describe his works in glass, enamel, 445 north park avenue, winter park, florida 32789 • When the object is shaped, it is transferred from the blowpipe to a pontil rod, and pottery: Favrile. Favrile comes from an old English word meaning handmade. a long, solid iron rod, for the finishing touches. (407) 645-5311 www.morsemuseum.org

©2006 Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation, Inc. About Tiffany Art Glass Family Activities SCAVENGER HUNT DRAWING ACTIVITY Tiffany created art glass in Draw your favorite Tiffany art glass piece from the exhibition TECHNIQUES AND SOURCES Tiffany was fascinated by the art of ancient worlds. wonderful shapes, sizes, colors, Domestic Treasures: Tiffany Art Glass for the Public. Archaeology was a new and popular science during the and designs. Can you find: deas for Tiffany’s art 18th and 19th centuries, and Tiffany most certainly saw many objects from archaeological digs. These two glass pieces came 1. A vase that looks like lava. from a variety of types of Tiffany art glass were inspired by such finds: I 2. A vase that looks like it might places. And, of course, CYPRIOTE GLASS: be a genie’s home. there was no greater This glass, its name derived from the island 3. The largest work in the source of inspiration for nation, Cyprus, has the exhibition. Tiffany than nature. He studied rough, irregular, or pitted 4. The smallest work in the surface – and also the exhibition. plants, flowers, rocks, and the flow unusual sheen – that was of lava and then incorporated common in glass buried 5. Objects that look like they might these things into his artwork. for centuries. It is believed be inspired by the view from a that Tiffany reproduced this glass-bottom boat. ancient surface by rolling Above: Vase, 1898. Cypriote glass, 6. A vase that is pink. Right: Vase, 1900. Jack-in-the-pulpit floriform, Opalescent molten glass in crushed Louis Comfort Tiffany (56-024). glass with iridescent blossom, Louis Comfort Tiffany (56-032). glass crumbs. 7. Vases decorated with tulips.

TELL EL-AMARNA: 8. Vases decorated with zigzag This Egyptian-inspired glass designs. from Tiffany Studios has simple 9. Decorative tiles. What makes Tiffany art glass special? neck decorations and is based on Tiffany’s knowledge of the 10. Vases decorated with vines. • Gem-like colors ancient vases recovered • Original forms from the Pharaoh Akhenaten excavation in Tell el-Amarna. ANSWER KEY: • Surface ﬁnishes 1. Case #11 (65-029) and • Variety Case #18 (1999-115)

Right: Vase, 1914. Tell el-Amarna, 2. Case #26 (66-010) Luster glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany 3. Case #25 (55-002) (70-023). 4. Salt dish on table 5. Case #4 [(62-005) and (56-005)] DID YOU KNOW? 6. Case #12 (57-004) 7. Case #22 [(71-001) and (55-006)] • Sand is the main ingredient of glass. • Glassmaking is believed to have been • The technique of glassblowing began 8. Case #2 [(70-023) and (54-040)] invented in Mesopotamia – now Iraq – in the Roman Empire around 50 B.C. • Glass produced by volcanic eruptions 9. Most of Case #27 4,500 years ago. more than 40 million years ago is known • Tiffany’s art glass has practical uses 10. Case #28 [(79-529) and (55-004)] as obsidian. but is more often purely decorative.

1848 1870s 1879- 1892 1893 1893 1894 1899 1904 1905 1933 EXPLORE TIFFANY’S Tiffany is born Exhibits paintings Hired for important Exhibits chapel interior, a Introduces art Awarded patent for Introduces Introduces pottery; Completes Tiffany dies in CAREER! in New York at National Academy jobs in interior mosaic masterpiece, at the glass to the use of the trademark leaded-glass begins designing Laurelton Hall New York and Century Club design World’s Columbian Exposition public “Favrile” lamps jewelry on Long Island in Chicago About Blown Glass Word Puzzle