Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Artistic in a distinctive and concentrated way, namely, characterized by rich colors, enameling, and iridescence, with decorative effect: applied to glass so produced. See the etymology.
- noun A highly decorative colored, enameled, and iridescent glass, usually in vaseforms.
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- noun art An
iridescent glass developed by Tiffany
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Examples
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I've been trying to pick about seven items that represent aestheticism, such as paintings by Albert Moore and Evelyn de Morgan, a Louis Comfort Tiffany favrile glass vase, a magazine cover for the periodical Pan.
Archive 2009-08-01 Theodora Goss 2009
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Just as the ancient Egyptians and Persians had used glazed brick and tile, set in cement, as their form of wall decoration, so Mr. Tiffany had used favrile glass, set in cement.
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Other Tiffany pieces will include a lamp shade of green favrile glass in the Damascene pattern with brilliant iridescence, signed L.C.T. ($12,000-$17,000); a rare bronze sconce with three large inset turtle-back tiles of favrile glass with overall iridescence and original patina
Antique News News! 2008
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The dome itself shimmers with gold: it’s made of 2,836 pieces of gold favrile glass, which was cast in the kilns of Louis Comfort Tiffany on Long Island, and it is magnificent in the way a palace should be magnificent.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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The dome itself shimmers with gold: it’s made of 2,836 pieces of gold favrile glass, which was cast in the kilns of Louis Comfort Tiffany on Long Island, and it is magnificent in the way a palace should be magnificent.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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($15,000-$20,000); and a lamp shade of gold favrile glass in the Demascene pattern, signed L.C.T. Favrile ($10,000-$15,000).
Antique News News! 2008
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"With his group, they experimented, and produced this favrile - a term that means handmade.
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"With his group, they experimented, and produced this favrile - a term that means handmade.
mtc commented on the word favrile
According to Wikipedia,
Favrile is different from other iridescent glasses because its color is not just on the surface, but embedded in the glass.7 The original trade name Fabrile was derived from an Old English word, fabrile, meaning "hand-wrought" or handcrafted.8 Tiffany later changed the word to Favrile "since this sounded better".9
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favrile_glass)
February 18, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word favrile
Favrile is a favrite for reflection.
fabrile is a managed, loomed fabric.
February 18, 2013