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SIR CECIL BEATON (BRITISH 1904-1980) FOR STEUBEN GLASS 'LADY-IN-WAITING' VASE from the British Artists in Crystal exhibition, 1954. Shape B500, 29.5cm H x 20cm diam. The exhibition premiered in New York in April 1954 before travelling internationally, including a high-profile showing at Park Lane House in London in 1955. It included twenty commissioned creators. Other notable figures include Sir Jacob Epstein, Duncan Grant, John Nash and Eric Gill. The vase is diamond point engraved by Steuben senior staff designer George Thompson to an illustration provided by Beaton. See The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object number: 59.136.9 for a comparable example. The Woolworths Family, by descent to the vendor. wear commensurate with age. Some surface scratches.
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