Viktor Schreckengost and Cowan Pottery Studio
Jazz Bowl
1925
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Glazed earthenware, 18 1/8 x 13 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (46 x 34.9 x 34.3 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts Acquisitions Endowment established by the Friends of the American Wing, Friends of the American Wing Fund, Middendorf Foundation Fund, and Charlotte B. Filbert Bequest Fund
Object Number
2001.459
Decorated with a montage of skyscrapers, cocktail glasses, musical instruments, neon signs, dance club scenes, and other Art Deco images of New York City life. The final series of the 'Jazz' Bowl had impressed or cast decoration, as opposed to the scratched (sgraffito) decoration of the earlier models.
Christie's, New York, Sale #9798 (12/7/01), lot #373.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005-February 26, 2005; The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005-November 20, 2005; The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005-February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006-April 9, 2006
'New On View,' 'BMA Today,' July/August 2002, p.8, ill.
Inscribed: BOTTOM RIM OF BOWL, exterior, (glazed 'VIKTOR./ SCHRECKENGOST'; BASE, rim underside, (impressed) 'COWAN (& the firms mark)'
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 02
