"Skyscraper"

LOUIS W. RICE  (Designer)  USA
APOLLO STUDIOS, BERNARD RICE’S SONS, INC.  New York

Skyscraper vanity hand mirror   1928

Silver-plated brass, original beveled mirror

Stamped marks: APOLLO STUDIOS, NEW YORK EPNS within a rectangle, SKYSCRAPER, REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.

For related Skyscraper objects see: (cocktail shaker)   Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor, Charles L. Venable  (Dallas/New York: Dallas Museum of Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995) p. 288; (teapot) Modernism:  Modernist Design 1880-1940, The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England:  The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998); (cocktail shaker) American Modern 1925-1940, Design for a New Age, J. Stewart Johnson, exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, American Federation of Arts, 2000) p. 48.

L: 18 1/2″ x D: 5″

The same model can be found in the collection of the New York Historical Society.