About this artwork
The Jazz Bowl was originally designed for Eleanor Roosevelt in celebration of her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s re-election as governor of New York, and it has since become an icon of the Jazz Age and an Art Deco masterpiece. Cowan Pottery liked the design, which captures the architecture, music, and nightlife of New York City as Viktor Schreckengost knew it, and the company decided to put the bowl into production. Using Schreckengost’s template and a sgraffito technique, workers scratched the design into the engobe, or black glaze. Schreckengost then inspected and signed the bowl. The final Egyptian blue glaze was applied to reflect New York at night.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Viktor Schreckengost
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Title
- Jazz Bowl
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Place
- Rocky River (Object made in)
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Date
- c. 1931
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Medium
- Glazed earthenware, engobe
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Inscriptions
- Signed on body "VIKTOR SCHRECKEGOST", impressed on underside with "COWAN" and firm's mark
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Dimensions
- 23.5 × 42.6 × 43.2 cm (9 1/4 × 16 3/4 × 17 in.)
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Credit Line
- Through prior acquisition of the Antiquarian Society; Thorne Rooms Exhibition Fund; bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan; and the Winfield Foundation
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Reference Number
- 2004.1
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