MORE COLUMBIANA: TWO CHINA PIECES--SMALL BOWL & RIBBED EDGE VASE OR GLASS #1229

Description

I'm quite buried in the midst of preparing for our very large forthcoming sale focused heavily on world's fairs especially 1893 Columbian, which has been almost a full-time job for me since my first book on the fair was published 28 years ago!
I continue to to offer more wonderful items from the John Kennel collection, which is going to be a major part of my next (and third) book on the exposition. I began selling his collection in April 2019 and the rarities in the 5,000+ piece collection have been overwhelming. Even the nonrarities--just the hundreds upon hundreds of "scarce" items any collector would love to own--have been just plain fun.
The small tumbler/vase is just over 3 1/2 inches tall and the diameter at the rim is 2 5/8 inches and at the bottom is 1 3/4 inches.
The bowl is 4 inches at the widest part of the rim and 2 inches on the bottom. It stands just 2 inches tall.
Both pieces have much of their original gilt around the top edge and the transfer ware illustrations are in great condition, the art palace on the tumbler (made in Austria) and the Electrical building on the bowl (made in England). As you can see in the photos, the bottom stamping is quite bold on both.
The overall color is not quite identical as the bowl is more stark white and the tumbler has a slight offwhite color.
The price here is for BOTH pieces; the lot consists of two pieces. This type of china from the exposition is a bit scarce but by no means rare, per se. We have only sold a handful of similar pieces and we have been selling Columbian souvenirs and memorabilia for more than 40 years.
The bidding opens at a very low .99 and you can purchase both pieces outright (if you have the opportunity before anyone opens the bidding) for less than !
If you would like more information about our September 1 sale and my book that is scheduled to be published the end of the year, please just ask. I've never been shy about sharing a few thousand words on the subject. The sale will include some quite rare material, including several medals from the first-ever worlds fair, London's 1851 Crystal Palace. And one of the 1853 New York Crystal Palace items is a very rare original book-size guide to the exhibits. Naturally as a historian and author I gravitate to such things; it would be likely the only one of the books/guides/catalogs you will ever see from the first world's fair in the U.S., held just two years after the world's first....and 'only' 168 years ago!
We will have an estimated 350+ items in the sale, many in lots with multiple items, such as 3 or 4 medals from the same fair in a single lot. Columbian material will include the most world's fair items from any fair in the sale. Besides world's fair and exposition material we also will have items from the U.S. Civil War (from tokens to a cannon ball!) and a very scarce archive of material from the 1880s Eastman (as in Eastman Kodak) Business College in New York, among the items one lot consisting of a complete run of fractional currency--1 cent, 3 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents and 50 cents, plus lots of individual pieces as well.