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Bowl

Designer Andries D. Copier (Dutch, 1901 -)

Place of OriginHolland (Leerdam)

Date1939

DimensionsDiam: 20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm)

MediumGlass, sand-blasted

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1940.39

Not on View

DescriptionLarge heavy clear glass, flat bowl with sand-blasted decoration. Zodiac design.

Label TextThe Leerdam Glass Factory’s Zodiac Plate was made for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The Fair promoted the Utopian ideal of “the world of tomorrow” and all things modern, including modern design. The Art Deco style, embodied in the Zodiac Plate, reached its culmination with the Fair.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Decorative Arts, 1940, no. 82.