LOT DETAILS

Materials:

sterling silver

Size Notes:

27.7 cm diam.

Description:

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Markings:

impressed STERLING/SD71/By Saarinen with artist's cypher

Literature:

The Architect and the Industrial Arts: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Design , New York, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1929, p. 61 and pl. 8 (for the model prototype). Stewart Johnson,. American Modern 1925-1940: Design for a New Age , New York, 2000, p. 45 (for the 15-inch diameter version in the John C. Waddell Collection, now in the permanent collection of Yale University Art Gallery). Jewel Stern,. Modernism in American Silver , New Haven, 2005, pp. 105 and 353, cat. no. 87 (see previous). John Stuart Gordon,. A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery 1920-1950 , New Haven, 2011, p. 288-89 (see previous). Patrick Parrish,. The Hunt: Navigating the Worlds of Art and Design , Brooklyn, 2018, pp. 123-25 (for a discussion of the present example

Provenance:

Patrick Parrish, New York. Wright Auction, Chicago, December 7, 2003, lot 174. The Collection of Sue Kohler, Washington, D.C. Thence by descent