Important Design
Important Design
Louis W. Rice, Fourteen-Piece "Skyscraper" Cocktail Service
Auction Closed
December 12, 06:50 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Louis W. Rice
Fourteen-Piece "Skyscraper" Cocktail Service
circa 1920s
produced by Bernard Rice's Sons, Inc.
silver-plated nickel, enameled metal
each element stamped SKYSCRAPER/DES. PAT.PENDING/APOLLO E.P.N.S./MADE BY BERNARD RICE'S SONS INC.
9 ¼ x 18 ¼ x 2 ½ 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 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
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