id:			157187
accession number:	1993.73
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.73
updated:		2022-01-07 22:53:22.734000

To a Giraffe, c. 1963. Steuben Glass, Inc. (America, est. 1903). Glass; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. William C. Treuhaft 1993.73

title:				To a Giraffe
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creation date:			c. 1963
creation date earliest:		1962
creation date latest:		1963
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. William C. Treuhaft
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culture:	America, New York, Corning, 20th century
technique:	glass
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Glass
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CREATORS

* Steuben Glass, Inc. (America, est. 1903)  - manufacturer
founded in 1903 with F. Carder as manager and specializing in decorative pieces. It was absorbed by the Corning Glass Works in 1918. In 1933 the name was revived as a department of the Corning Corporation.
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PROVENANCE

	Mr. and Mrs. William C. Treuhaft, Cleveland.
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fun fact: 
The image of the giraffe is created by hand engraving on the reverse side of the crystal form.

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This work served as the inspiration for a poem by Marianne Moore, "To a Giraffe," commissioned by the Poetry Society of America for its volume, <em>Poetry in Crystal</em>, published in 1963, which was a collaboration between a group of leading poets and Steuben Crystal.

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