Important Design

Important Design

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 353. "Jazz" Bowl.

Property of a Connecticut Collector

Viktor Schreckengost

"Jazz" Bowl

Auction Closed

December 10, 11:19 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Connecticut Collector

Viktor Schreckengost

"Jazz" Bowl


circa 1931

produced by the Cowan Pottery Studio, Rocky River, Ohio

glazed earthenware

signed VIKTOR SCHRECKENGOST in the design, initialed V in black paint to the underside, impressed COWAN and with the producer's mark

9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm) high

17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm) diameter

The Cowan Potters, Inc., March 17, 1931, p. 2
Alastair Duncan, American Art Deco, New York, 1986, p. 117
Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian, The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, New York, 1986. p. 291
Janet Kardon, ed., Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft, New York, 1995, p. 55
Karen McCready, Art Deco & Modernist Ceramics, London, 1995, p. 115
Henry Adams, Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design, Cleveland, 2000, cover and pp. xviii and 88-95