LOUIS W. RICE

A FOUR PIECE SILVER-PLATED BRASS 'SKY-SCRAPER' COFFEE AND TEA SET, CIRCA 1928

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LOUIS W. RICE
A Four Piece Silver-Plated Brass 'Sky-Scraper' Coffee and Tea Set, circa 1928
manufactured by Bernard Rice's Sons, Inc., New York
comprising: teapot, coffee pot, cream jug, sugar bowl with lid
teapot: 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high, sugar bowl with lid: 4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high
all four pieces stamped APOLLO EPNS, MADE BY BERNARD RICE & SONS, INC., 259, SKYSCRAPER (4)

Lot Essay

cf. J. Stern, exhibition catalogue, Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2005, p. 78, fig. 3.29 for an illustration of a three-piece 'Sky-Scraper' tea set.

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