from a "Jack In The Pulpit" flower. I mean it scares me every time I look at this object. It's so fragile and attenuated. What I love about this glass is the way it combines ancient and modern. Tiffany was inspired by ancient, Roman, and (terrain) glass, which has this iridescent...
of the blower was paramount in this, because Tiffany glass was free blown. Speed was necessary to achieve the desired effect before the molten glass cooled. With intricate Tiffany specialties, like the peacock feather motif or a jack-in-the-pulpit vase, executing this technique was very ...