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Cocktails and Cigarettes Punch Bowl

c. 1930–31
designed by

Viktor Schreckengost

(American, 1906–2008)
maker

Cowan Pottery Studio

(America, Ohio, Lakewood, 1913–1919)
Culture
America, Ohio, Cleveland
Medium
glazed earthenware with engobe, sgraffito
Measurements
Diameter: 42.8 cm (16 7/8 in.); Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth Mather McMillan 2000.128
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

This punch bowl, designed by a young Viktor Schreckengost and exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show of 1931, foreshadows the demise of Prohibition in 1933. Made at the Cowan Pottery Studio in Rocky River, the Cocktails and Cigarettes bowl is a not-so-subtle reference to the two main vices of the Jazz Age.
Black ceramic bowl with a sliver of a cylindrical base and a deep bowl, patterned with Egyptian blue. Shapes scratched into the surface and colored Egyptian blue suggest three cylindrical glasses layered over one another in a staggered row. Each has a straw angled left and bubbles above. Three, staggered, cigarettes omitting pairs of vertical smoke tendrils protrude to the right from the right-most glass. More bubble-like scratched designs can be seen within the bowl.

Cocktails and Cigarettes Punch Bowl

c. 1930–31

Viktor Schreckengost, Cowan Pottery Studio

(American, 1906–2008), (America, Ohio, Lakewood, 1913–1919)
America, Ohio, Cleveland

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