Pair of Bookends | Yale University Art Gallery

1929

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium: Glazed earthenware
Dimensions: each: 4 7/8 × 4 1/4 × 3 3/4 in. (12.4 × 10.8 × 9.5 cm)
Credit Line: John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959
Accession Number: 2016.16.8.1-.2
Geography: Manufactured in Rocky River, Ohio
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Purchased by John C. Waddell, New York, 2001

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2016), 5

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), 184, no. 117, front and back cover (detail)

Object copyright

Not Assigned

Additional information

Marks

"COWAN [as part of circle] / RG [with long downwards markings]," faintly impressed on inside face of each element

647

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