Louis W. Rice (American, 1872-1933). Rare Skyscraper Cocktail Shaker from the Apollo Studios Line, circa 1928, Bernard R...

Description

Louis W. Rice (American, 1872-1933)
Rare Skyscraper Cocktail Shaker from the Apollo Studios Line, circa 1928, Bernard Rice's Sons, Inc.
Nickel silver-plated metal
11-1/8 x 7 x 4-1/8 inches (28.3 x 17.8 x 10.5 cm)
Stamped SKY SCRAPER, PAT,D 75698, 75387, 75650, APOLLO E.P.N.S., MADE IN U.S.A. BY BERNARD RICE'S SONS INC., 5267 to underside

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, New York, Important 20th Century Design, July 17, 2004, lot 50.
Collection of Phil and Gretchen Arth, Moraga, California, acquired from the above.

LITERATURE:
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, for illustration.

Property from the Collection of Phillip and Gretchen Arth, Moraga, California

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