The Prairie

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Title: 
The Prairie
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
82.4.54
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.2 cm, Diam: 18.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1960
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Edwin J. Beinecke, Jr.
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, cut, engraved. Deep bowl shape; hollow cylindrical base with six applied vertical pads of glass; inscribed below rounded Indian corn rim, and in block letters "COYOTE", "PRAIRIE DOG", "PRONGHORN"; below each of these titles, the appropriate animal(s) shown in their native habitat: a single coyote howling at the moon; a colony of four prairie dogs with an owl in flight and a rattlesnake; two pronghorn antelopes with cloud and three birds in background; signed in script on base "Steuben".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Beinecke, Edwin J., Jr., Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Cut, Engraved
cut glass

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1982 (1983) p. 7; BIB# AI97140