Paul Schreckengost

comprising one punch bowl and six cups
produced in a limited edition of 50

Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian, The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, New York, 1986, p. 310 (for the pitcher, now in The Pollack Collection)
Alastair Duncan, Modernism:  Modernist Design 1880-1940;  The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1998, p. 213 (for the pitcher and punch cups)
Henry Adams, Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design, Cleveland, 2000, p. 116 (for the pitcher)
David A. Hanks and Anne Hoy, American Streamlined Design:  The World of Tomorrow, Paris, 2005, p. 18 (for the pitcher)

Paul Schreckengost, Viktor’s younger brother, worked as a mold-maker at the Gem Clay Forming Company, where he quickly earned the reputation as one of the country’s most adept ceramic artisans.  Paul’s most audacious designs include a pitcher and punch set produced by Gem Clay in limited editions of fifty.  These items were presented to favored Gem customers as Christmas gifts during the mid 1930s.  According to the Schreckengost family, the punch set (which comprised one punch bowl and six cups) was given out by Gem Clay one year after the pitcher.  Consequently, the cups were designed exclusively for the punch bowl, and were not intended to accompany the pitcher.  This rare punch set, one of the only known complete sets to survive, epitomizes the daring streamlined aesthetic of American 1930s design.