Gazelle Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Title: 
Gazelle Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
90.4.244
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.7 cm, Diam: 18.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1935
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Olsen
Web Description: 
With John Monteith Gates, the sculptor Sidney Waugh developed a modern yet classical style for the new Steuben colorless glass. The first Gazelle Bowls were engraved by the master engraver Joseph Libisch (1886–1964).

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Olsen, Barbara H. (1923-2016), Former Collection
Olsen, John K., Former Collection
Category: 
Modern
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, cut, copper-wheel engraved, polished
cut glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Bowl, "Gazelle Bowl". Colorless lead glass; blown, cut, copper-wheel engraved and polished. (a) Heavy spherical shape, with lipless rim; mid-section decorated, with a band of twelve deeply intaglio engraved (unpolished) overlapping gazelles with articulated musculature and varying head and body placement forming an undulating line; gazelles placed between two bands of double v-cut and polished lines; rounded base, with polished pontil; diamond point inscribed in script just above lower cut bands: "Sidney Waugh"; (b) heavy, circular shape notched to form a cross; upper surface has been cut and ground into a dished support; thick sides taper in towards top, decorated on protruding edges, near base, with three parallel horizontal rows of v-cuts; base ground and polished flat; inscribed in script near edge of one quadrant: "Steuben".

Exhibitions (1)

The Cutting Edge: 200 Years of the Crystal Object
Venue(s)
M. H. De Young Memorial Museum 1992-02-22 through 1992-05-17
Toledo Museum of Art 1992-06-30 through 1992-08-22
National Museum of American History 1992-10-03 through 1993-01-24
Denver Art Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Publications (15)

Flawless Until the End (2012-01) illustrated, p. 48;
Jurors' Choice (2012) illustrated, p. 81, top;
Jurors' Choice (New Glass Review 33) (2012) illustrated, p. 81, top; BIB# AI87132
Makers A History of American Studio Craft (2010) illustrated, p. 179; BIB# 118619
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 89; BIB# 96551
Stained and Art Glass (2005-11) illustrated, p. 83; BIB# 87455
The encyclopedia of modern marbles, spheres & orbs (2005) illustrated, p. 24 fig. 20; BIB# 88983
Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal (2003 edition) (2003) p. 73; BIB# 75000
Glass A to Z (2002) illustrated, p. 203; BIB# 73416
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999) illustrated, p. 26; BIB# 63967
The Corning Museum of Glass, Curators' Choice (1995) illustrated, #22; BIB# 36655
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (1993) p. 83; BIB# 35660
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 120, #118; BIB# 35679
The Cutting Edge: 200 Years of Crystal (1992) fig. 43; BIB# 35042
Recent Important Acquisitions, 33 (1991) illustrated, p. 108, #35; BIB# AI27386