Vase ca. 1895-98 Probably cut by Fredolin Kreischmann Austrian This vase features cased and cut decoration on a virtually colorless glass form. The blue-white opalescent rim is the result of the vessel having been reintroduced into the hot furnace. Tiffany's master of this type of ornamentation was Fredolin Kreischmann (or Kreischman), a highly skilled glass cutter and engraver whom Tiffany hired during the early years of his production of blown-glass vases. Kreischmann had perfected his technique while employed at the leading proponent of this method, the British firm Thomas Webb, in Stourbridge. In the five years that Kreischmann worked for Tiffany before his death in 1898 he created some of the most breathtaking pieces known from the firm.This vase exhibits a delicacy and fluidity not often associated with cut glass. Two of Tiffany's favorite motifs from the natural worldlily pads and Queen Anne's lacesubtly emerge from the surface. The lily pads are carved from a light spring gre