Massachusetts

Manufacturer Steuben Glass (American, founded 1903)

Artist Sidney Waugh (designer) (American, 1904 - 1963)

Date1950-1959

Mediumengraved crystal

Dimensions11 x 7 inches (27.9 x 17.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number41.8.1.22.A

ClassificationsDecorative Arts

DescriptionThe clipper ship "Flying Cloud."

Label Text“Very few men now living can remember having seen a clipper ship under full sail. But painters, poets, and prose writers have left us a vivid picture of their breath-taking combination of grace, speed, and strength. Some men have said, in all seriousness, that the clipper ship is the most beautiful thing ever created by the hand and mind of man.” Sidney Waugh

ProvenanceManufacturer; purchased December 4, 1959 through (Neiman-Marcus, Dallas, Texas) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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