Adam and Eve

Object NameVase

Series

Twenty-Seven Artists in Crystal

Designer Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (British, 1882-1940)

Maker Steuben Glass, Inc. (1903-)

Made FromLead Glass

Date1939

Place MadeUnited States, NY, Corning

TechniqueBlown, applied decoration, engraved

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number2015.4.7

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Twenty-Seven Contemporary Artists in Crystal

Not On View

Physical Description"Adam and Eve" Vase from the "Twenty-Seven Artists in Crystal" Series. Colorless lead glass, blown, applied decoration, engraved. Tall, tapering cylindrical vase body with slightly flaring rim. Applied scroll-shaped stem and round flat foot. Engraved designs of a nude male figure (Adam) and a nude female figure (Eve) with foliate tree branches behind them that climb up the vases, Eve's branch slightly more elaborate than Adam's. Nude child with halo perched in highest tree branches above Eve.
Provenance

Source KPM Arts & Antiques - 2014-2015-05-26
Kevin McNamara, an American glass dealer from Connecticut called Kelly Conway, who directed him to Tina Oldknow, at the beginning of March, 2015. Kevin bought the pair of vases online as "inventory," because he sells a lot of early Steuben glass. The person he purchased them from said that he got them from his grandparents. Kevin has had the pair of vases for a year or so, but had not offered them to anyone. When he read that the Museum was interested in collecting the series, he contacted us.