Important 20th Century Design

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Lot 57
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Gene Theobald

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Description

  • Gene Theobald
  • Four-Piece Tea Service
  • each piece stamped with firm's marks and numbers
  • electroplated nickel silver and Bakelite
comprising teapot, covered sugar bowl, creamer and tray

Literature

House & Garden, May 1929, p. 149 (for a period advertisement of the model)
Vanity Fair, May 1929, p. 113 (for a period advertisement of the model)
Vogue, May 11, 1929, p. 71 (for a period advertisement of the model)
Alastair Duncan, Modernism:  Modernist Design 1880-1940;  The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1998, p. 231
''Shaping the Modern:  American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago, 1917-1965,'' The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2001, p. 39