Favrile Bowl, 1916

Art Glass is ornamental and decorative glass dating from the mid-to-late 19th century through the early 20th century. Makers of Art Glass employed newly developed technologies for producing vibrant colors and surface textures. This is most famously seen in the iridescent surfaces of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his contemporaries, although Art Glass took many shapes and forms.

Small sawmills played a fundamental role in rural communities in nineteenth century America, processing locally-logged wood to provide sawn lumber for construction in the immediate area. While many such mills were water powered, this was steam-powered from the outset. It was simple but refined -- a modest, self-sufficient industrial operation (water and fuel was available onsite), comfortably wedded to its rural location.

Learn more about the ebbs and flows of the impact of Louis Comfort Tiffany on American culture, both during his lifetime and beyond, well into the 20th century.

Explore the history of Art Glass from early works in the 1880s, through its most well-known creator, Louis Comfort Tiffany, to TIffany's competitors and the end of the movement in the early 20th century.