Rare Steuben Elements Art Glass Vase Designed by David Dowler, 1998

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This is a rare and stunning controlled air bubble vase by renowned artist David Dowler for Steuben. This sculptural vase … Read more This is a rare and stunning controlled air bubble vase by renowned artist David Dowler for Steuben. This sculptural vase features a beautifully clear crystal body enlivened by controlled air bubbles throughout, creating depth, texture, and luminous light play.

A striking standalone object or sophisticated vessel for floral arrangements, this vase exemplifies American studio glass at its finest. Signed "Steuben" on the underside.

David Dowler (b. 1945) began his professional life as a designer-silversmith for Samuel Kirk & Sons and spent much of his career as an innovative, world-renowned sculptor and designer for Steuben Glass. The son and grandson of architects and a distant relative of the late poet Marianne Moore (he owns and has read all her books), Dowler reflects his heritage as well as his own abundant gifts and depth of experience through the shapes, surfaces, and symbols in his sculptures.

Dowler’s works have been exhibited in museums worldwide and are in the permanent collections of many, from the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris to the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan. See less