Glass vase featuring gazelles, on display as part of the "Jazz Age" exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

Sidney Biehler Waugh (1904-1963) was born in Massachusetts. His father was a landscape architect and professor of horticulture at Massachusetts State College. Sidney entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 16, but left without graduating after three years. He studied art in Rome and Paris where he studied with sculptor and painter Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) and was an assistant to sculptor Henri Bouchard (1875-1960). After World War I, the American Battle Monuments Commission commissioned a sculptural piece from him for the Florence American Cemetery. He won the Prix de Rome in 1929. Waugh returned to the United States in 1932. He was hired as chief designer by Steuben Glass in 1934.

Joseph Libisch (1886-1964) was born in Zvečevo, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia). The eldest son of a glass cutter who worked for the well-known Austrian glass manufacturer and retailer J.&L. Lobmeyr, Libisch began an apprenticeship at the age of 12. In 1906, he moved to Vienna, where he executed engravings for the famous Art Deco and Art Nouveau studio, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops). He moved to New York City in 1911, and three days after his arrival was working for the Corning, N.Y., cut glass manufacturer H.P. Sinclaire & Co. Establishing his own workshop, Libisch left Sinclaire in 1921 to work as a freelancer. When Steuben Glass established an engraving department in 1937, Libisch closed his shop and became Steuben’s engraving foreman. Libisch was Steuben’s most famous and most skilled engraver.

Steuben Glass Works was an American art glass manufacturer founded in 1903 by Frederick Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York. Steuben was acquired by Corning Glass in 1918. Corning sold Steuben in 2008 to Schottenstein Stores, which shuttered Steuben Glass in 2011.

The "Gazelle Bowl" is one of Waugh and Libisch's most famous works. Designed by Waugh and engraved by Libisch, it features a massive base and thick walls designed to invoke the "Machine Age" favored by Art Deco. The leaping, graceful gazelles, however, are reminiscent of Jazz Age dance and Art Nouveau.

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