Viktor Schreckengost

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Description

Viktor Schreckengost
''Jazz'' Punch Bowl
signed on body VIKTOR/SCHRECKENGOST, the underside impressed COWAN with firm's mark, and with foundation tag marked with serial number 8913
glazed earthenware

from Cowan's third production series

Provenance

Ralph and Fay Fortner, New York, ca. 1930s
Thence by descent

Literature

Henry Adams, Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design, Cleveland, 2000, p. 91

Catalogue Note

The example presently offered represents Cowan’s third and final production variant of Schreckengost's iconic design. This bowl differs from Cowan’s earlier series in that its size is slightly smaller, and its production utilizes a casting technique which allowed the bowls to be produced more economically. Consequently, the variant was quickly nicknamed “The Poor Man’s Bowl.” While the bowl is decorated with the same imagery as its predecessors, Schreckengost’s signature is inscribed across the label of a liquor bottle, a detail not found on the earlier bowls. According to the artist, only twenty examples of this final variant were produced.

This bowl has been authenticated by The Viktor Schreckengost Foundation and is registered under the serial number 8913.