14-Piece "Skyscraper" Cocktail Service
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March 14, 05:13 PM GMT
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8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
Louis W. Rice
14-Piece "Skyscraper" Cocktail Service
circa 1920s
produced by Bernard Rice's Sons, Inc.
silver-plated nickel, enameled metal
each piece stamped SKYSCRAPER/DES. PAT.PENDING/APOLLO E.P.N.S./MADE BY BERNARD RICE'S SONS INC.
9.3 x 18.3 x 2.6 in. (23.6 x 46.5 x 6.6 cm), as pictured
Private Collection, Texas
Thence by descent to the present owner
J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age, New York, 2000, p. 48 (for an example of the pitcher in the John C. Waddell Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Charles Venable, Silver in America 1840-1940, Dallas, 1994, p. 288, fig. 9.33 (for the pitcher)
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