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Bowl and Stand

Designer Sidney Biehler Waugh American, 1904-1963

Manufacturer Steuben Glass, Inc., Corning Glass Works American, 1932-present

Place of OriginCorning, New York

Date1935

DimensionsH: 17.8 cm (7 in.); Rim Diam: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)

MediumColorless glass; blown, cut, engraved

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of William E. Levis

Object number

1936.36

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 183-184, repr. (col.) p. 185.

Raizman, David, History of Modern Design, Upper Saddle River, N.J., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010, fig. 10.2, p. 224.

Exhibition HistoryTallinn (USSR), Museum of Applied Arts; Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum; Moscow, Museum of the State Institute of Glass, "Masterpieces of American Glass," 1990, p. 59, fig. 92 (col.). [36.36 exhibited in Leningrad and Moscow only.]

America Craft Museum, New York, N.Y. 1995-96.

Label TextThe Gazelle Bowl was the first major design in glass by young sculptor Sidney Biehler Waugh (1904–1963), who had recently become the principal designer for Steuben Glass. The glass used for this compact and robust sculptural work, with its purity and dazzling transparency, represented a technological breakthrough formulated by the chemists of Corning Glass Works (a division of Steuben Glass). The spherical bowl rising from the separate, angular base expresses the geometric contrasts characteristic of the Art Deco style. The exhibition of Steuben glass mounted by the Toledo Museum of Art in 1936 included a Gazelle Bowl owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Shortly thereafter, William E. Levis, president of Owens-Illinois Glass Company, acquired this example and presented it to the Toledo Museum.