A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER PLATE PENGUIN-FORM COCKTAIL SHAKERS
A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER PLATE PENGUIN-FORM COCKTAIL SHAKERS

MARK OF NAPIER, MERIDEN, 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVER PLATE PENGUIN-FORM COCKTAIL SHAKERS
MARK OF NAPIER, MERIDEN, 20TH CENTURY
Each in the form of a stylized penguin, with strap handle, the head-form cover with hinged spout, marked under base pat.D-101559
12 ¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Another penguin-form shaker sold in these Rooms, 15 January 2009, lot 219. The model is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art and illustrated in Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver, 2005, fig. 7.6, p. 157.

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