Skyscraper coffee service | Phillips, de Pury & Company

Estimated value: 3000-5000 US$

Auction:
19-20th Century Design Art

Sales date: 2002-12-11

Location:
New York

Lot number: 72

Design

Louis W. Rice
Manufacturer Bernard Rice's Sons, Inc.

Architonic id

4104499

comprising coffee pot, sugar, creamer
silver-plated copper and brass with manufacturer's marks (3)
coffee pot: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) high

Literature:
Richard Guy Wilson, Diane H. Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian, THE MACHINE AGE IN AMERICA, 1918-1941, New York, 1986, p. 287 (for an illustration of the tea service)