Iridescent Glass Candy Dish, Maker: Louis Comfort Tiffany

Candy dish
Maker: Louis Comfort Tiffany ( American, 1848 - 1933 )
DATE: n.d.
Iridescent glass
4 3/4 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (12.07 × 13.97 × 13.97 cm)
Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Waggener
OBJECT NUMBER: 1983.18

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art website:
“Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) was one of America's preeminent masters of the decorative arts. Although he is best known for his prodigious achievements in glass, especially for his vibrantly colored windows and lamps, Tiffany excelled in a wide range of media—mosaics, enamels, metalwork, ceramics, and jewelry...

Son of the founder of the famed Tiffany and Company on Fifth Avenue in New York City, Louis Comfort Tiffany began his career as a painter shortly after the Civil War. Turning to interior design, he rode the crest of the burgeoning economy in the aftermath of the war, decorating homes of some of the leading figures of the day…and undertaking such public commissions as Chester Arthur's White House and the Veterans' Room of the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City. In the 1870s he began to experiment with new forms of glassmaking, and by the 1880s the Tiffany Glass Company was the largest producer of stained-glass windows in the nation.

In the next decade Tiffany established his own glass furnaces in Corona, Queens, New York, where he developed and perfected his Favrile ware, widely celebrated for its astonishing variety of shapes, colors, and textures and for its rainbow iridescence. New techniques were introduced continuously ...”