What is a peacock?
The peacock vase is an open content with a peacock motif used to hold flowers. Its function is of purely aesthetic nature. The ligaments of the peacock are made of glass and differ in costs depending on the manufacturer and age of the vase. While the woman is simple, the man has developed a long-green tail feathers with what seems to be his eyes near their top. Feather is used to attract women. Most of the peacocks were kept in captivity to the subcontinent and later around the world, although it is known that it has relaxed and re -introduced into nature. The Romans connected them with Juno, known Greeks as Hera. Peacocks became associated with eternal life of early Christians and together with Phoenix Resurrection. The bird entered the Western conscience in the 19th century, when it was included in art and literature like William Morris and Oscar Wilde. He achieved his apogee with James Abbott McNeil Whistler Peacock Room .
between this increasing interest in Asian skillsEspecially Louis Comfort Tiffany created the first peacock vase in 1896. Tiffany combined Syrian blowing techniques with its own artistic style to create a vase that seemed to be made of glass feathers filled with their pseudoma. It is a Syrian technique that gives a glass of its durability. The first vase in the peacock is now stored in the Chrysler Museum.
Tiffany's first peacock was a fine piece. Subsequent changes in the weight of peacocks either try to continue the fineness, change of the mold and shape of the vase, or try to use more peacocks. Fine variations tend to play on the topic of twisting and spawn in feathers, with a vase is the only piece of blown glass. They also tend to use blue and green colors, although it can also be changed.
Many modern peacocks now depict the entire peacock on the side of the glass. This tends to be accessories to the main body of the vase by shaping and connecting hot glass models. As a result, these vases are cheaper and easier to produce, but lose a large part of the attractionZena in the original Tiffany.