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Vase with Acrobats. From the Steuben series "Twenty-Seven Contemporary Artists."Colorless lead glass; blown, engraved. Large footed vase with globular bowl, fire-polished lipless rim; bowl engraved on exterior of one side with scene depicting a male acrobat laying on his back, arms resting under his head, upon a textured rectangular box, on the foot of one leg lifted at a 90° degree angle a sharply foreshortened female acrobat, with extended arm, balances on her mid-section; other leg of male angled at 45° degrees and balances a horizontal line with a ball rests on far end; horizon line extends from both sides of box, on right section several broken lines converge to one point on horizon line; short, solid stem; slightly domed foot, polished pontil; inscribed in script on polished pontil: "Steuben 1939/3-5"; inscribed in replica of artist's signature on base of design: "P. Tchelitchew".
Exhibitions (2)

Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960
Venue(s)
Museum of the City of New York 2003-10-14 through 2004-04-11

Corning Glass Center 2000/Steuben Exhibition
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1997-09-20 through 1997-10-11
Publications (18)
Five Thousand Years of Glass (British Museum Press, Revised) (1999)
illustrated, pp. 196-197, #251, left;
BIB# 65713
Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-century American Craft (1996)
illustrated, p. 164 (bottom);
BIB# 45927
Five Thousand Years of Glass (British Museum Press) (1991)
illustrated, pp.196-197, #251, left;
BIB# 34319