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Bookends (pair)
Designed by: Albert Drexler Jacobson (American, 1895–1973)
Made at: Cowan Pottery Studio (active 1919–1931)
Made at: Cowan Pottery Studio (active 1919–1931)
designed about 1929
Object Place: Rocky River, Ohio
Medium/Technique
Glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 15.2 cm (6 in.)
Credit Line
The John Axelrod Collection
Accession Number2014.1325.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionTwo (2) objects - Pelican bookends
ProvenanceBy 1987, owned by Fifty/50 (gallery) New York, New York; April 19, 1986, sold by Fifty/50 (Ralph Cuiter?) to John Axelrod, Boston, Massachusetts; 2008, promised gift of John Axelrod to the Museum; 2014, gift of Axelrod to the MFA. (Accession date: October 29, 2014)