An Extremely Rare and Important Cocktail Shaker

Cocktail Shaker

ca 1934-1936

silver-plated metal and wicker

impressed WILCOX S.P. CO. / INTERNATIONAL S CO. / N5874 / I and S within squares, firm's cypher and an illegible mark on underside

ht. 10 7/8 in.

produced by Wilcox Silver Plate Company, a division of International Silver Company, Meriden, CT

Literature:

Contemporary American Industrial Art, exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1934, p. 14 (for listing of the prototype designed by Paul Lobel, produced by International Silver Company).

"A Parade of Contemporary Achievements at The Metropolitan Museum," Arts & Decoration, December 1934, p. 13 (for the prototype exhibited in Contemporary American Industrial Art, 1934)

"At Metropolitan Museum," International Silver Service, January/February 1935, p. 6 (for the prototype exhibited in Contemporary American Industrial Art, 1934).

J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern 1925-1940: Design for a New Age, New York, 2000, p. 207 (for Lobel's tea service produced by Wilcox, in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver, New Haven, 2005, pp. 111 and 116 (for Lobel's tea service produced by Wilcox, in the John C. Waddell Collection).

John Stuart Gordon, A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950, New Haven, 2011, p. 267.
Condition Report: Scattered surface scratches to body.