"Rearing Pegasus, " Classic Art Deco Engraved Glass Vase, Waugh for Steuben

One of world's greatest achievements in Art Deco artisanry, the famed "Europa and the Bull" spherical bowl was designed by Sidney Waugh and executed by the Steuben Glass division of corning glass in the 1930s. Waugh had been hired by Steuben as its chief designer in 1933, and over the next 20 years he designed a wide array of bowls, vases and other glass objects that were decorated with high-style Art Deco figures executed via copper-wheel engraving. Arthur Amory Houghton, grandson of the founder of Corning, took the Steuben division in a new and modern direction when he hired John Monteith Gates to be its managing director and Waugh to be its first designer. Steuben became known as one of the globe's great modern glass companies, and from the 1930s-1950s, Steuben rivaled Orrefors in Sweden and Lobmeyr in Austria for the finest engraved Art Deco glass work...

An especially rare example of Vicke Lindstrand's characterisitically elegant, stylized nude figures for the Orrefors glass company in Sweden, this piece features an engraved nude male figure playing a large harp...

Featuring two nude female figures in an exotic setting, framed by palm trees and cactus, each reaching to or bowing before the sun and moon, this superb engraved glass vase was desig...

A masterpiece of Art Deco design, and one of the greatest engraved glass pieces created anywhere in the world in the 1930s, this very rare low bowl depicts a series of figures illust...

One of Vicke Lindstrand's characterisitically elegant, stylized nude figures for the Orrefors glass company in Sweden at the height of the Art Deco era in 1939, this piece features a...

A tour de force example of the remarkable glass artisanry characteristic of Bohemia and the Czech Republic between World Wars I and II, this deeply engraved vase depicts a laborer wi...

Walter Dorwin Teague Steuben vase, circa 1933. This piece is a late example of Frederick Carder’s colored Steuben produced at a time when Carder had since been promoted from Steub...

A beautiful multi-colored French Art Deco style mouth-blown art glass vase. Wonderful details and very good condition. Would enhance any setting. Measures: 10 1/4" High x 4 1/2"-...

A fantastic, large, faceted Art Deco vase by Elis Bergh for Kosta Boda with an engraved image of the Greek god Mercury in full stride on the front. The base has an etched mark fo...

A beautiful example of Postwar deco design and an early example of the developing Sklo style. This midcentury rectangular vase has been made in a light sh...

A fine Mid-Century Modern art glass vase. By Steuben. With tall, cylindrical side walls supported by a solid cylindrical base containing a captured bubble. Simply great Mid-...

Finely made German Art Deco Myra Kristal miniature art glass vase by Karl Wiedmann for WMF (Würtemburgische Metallwaren Fabrik) and made between 1926 and 1936. This elegant amber gla...