DESIGNED BY GEORGE THOMPSON AND ENGRAVED BY DON WIER FOR STEUBEN, 1948

细节

'ROSALIND', AN ENGRAVED AND APPLIED GLASS FOOTED VASE
Designed by George Thompson and Engraved by Don Wier for Steuben, 1948
The clear glass bowl finely engraved SWEET ARE THE LIFE USES OF ADVERSITY and decorated with a stylized female figure holding a lance and line-sheets amidst oak trees, with two applied knobule-shaped handles, engraved R and Steuben; together with original red leather and velvet presentation box and leather-bound archival photograph
9¾in. (24.7cm.) high, 7¾in. (19.7cm.) diameter

注意事项

This lot has no reserve.

拍品专文

The present scene draws inspiration from Shakespeare's As You Like It. The heroine Rosalind, dressed as a man, is shown leaning on her lance in the Forest of Arden
cf. Mary Jean Madigan, Steuben Glass - An American Tradition In Crystal, 1982, p.246 for an illustration of this model.