- Product:
- ''JAZZ'' PUNCH BOWL
- Manufacturer:
- Sotheby´s
- Architonic ID:
- 4107521
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Category:
- Living room accessories
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
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
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm) high 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm) diameter
Manufactured by Cowan Pottery Studio, Rocky River, OH
Provenance:
Grant Powers, artist and illustrator for the New York Daily News, ca. 1930s
Thence by descent
Literature and References:
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)
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
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm) high 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm) diameter
Manufactured by Cowan Pottery Studio, Rocky River, OH
Provenance:
Grant Powers, artist and illustrator for the New York Daily News, ca. 1930s
Thence by descent
Literature and References:
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)