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American Decorative Arts
Designer: Sidney Waugh, American, 1904–1963
Maker: Steuben Glass, Inc., American, 1933–1958
Mariner’s Bowl
designed 1935
Blown and engraved lead glass
2 3/8 × 16in. (6.033 × 40.64 cm)
The Lewis Walpole Library, by transfer
2006.189.38
Geography:
Made in Corning, New York
Designed in New York, New York
Status:
On view*
Culture:
American
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
Annie Burr Auchincloss Lewis and Wimarth Sheldon Lewis, Farmington, Conn., ca. 1938-79; transferred to the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington, Conn., 1979-2006
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2007,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007): 207–8, ill.
John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 226, no. 149.
John Stuart Gordon, American Glass: The Collections at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 240–41, no. 124.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
