Lot 234 | VIKTOR SCHRECKENGOST
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PROPERTY FROM A FLORIDA FAMILY
''JAZZ'' PUNCH BOWL
measurements note
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm) high 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm) diameter
manufactured by Cowan Pottery Studio, Rocky River, OH
ca. 1931
from Cowan's second production series
the interior decorated with a band of bubbles and stars
underside of ring base impressed COWAN with firm's mark, and with foundation tag marked with serial number 8915
glazed earthenware
PROVENANCE
Grant Powers, artist and illustrator for the New York Daily News, ca. 1930s
Thence by descent
LITERATURE
The Cowan Potters, Inc., March 17, 1931, p. 2
Karen Davies, At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression, New Haven, 1983, p. 81
Henry Adams, Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design, Cleveland, 2000, pp. 90 and 95 (for other examples of the flared-rim ''Jazz'' bowl presently offered) and pp. 88-95 (for a detailed discussion of the three variants of Schreckengost's ''Jazz'' bowls)
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