Pair of Bookends, "Gothic" Pattern | Yale University Art Gallery

Designed 1931, manufactured 1931–33

Medium: Brass and copper
Dimensions: each: 5 1/2 × 4 1/4 × 2 7/8 in. (14 × 10.8 × 7.3 cm)
Credit Line: John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959
Accession Number: 2021.80.24.1-.2
Geography: Designed in New York, New York, Manufactured in Waterbury, Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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Provenance

Sold to John C. Waddell, New York, 1989; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2021

Bibliography

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 166, no. 105

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

bookends

"[centaur with bow and arrow] / Chase" stamped near base on the back of each bookend

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