It was manufactured by Tiffany & Co. in New York in 1875–1876 to honor William Cullen Bryant.

[1] The vase was created in celebration of American poet William Cullen Bryant's 80th birthday in 1875.

The new vase, done in silver, was then endowed with themes and motifs reflecting some of Bryant's poetry.

To this end, the vase's fretwork depicts various plants, including stalks of corn, apple blossom, cattails, and water lilies.

On the neck of the vase the line "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again" – from Bryant's 1839 poem The Battlefield – is inscribed in gold.