Cocktail Shaker | Types | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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This owl looks remarkably like a silver sculpture but is in fact a cocktail shaker. Perched on a detachable base, the owl is sleek in design but fairly true-to-form in the animal's features and overall sculptural style. It is monochrome, has a smooth surface, and you can see layers of feathers on its head, at the bottom of its wings, and near its feet. There is a small indentation around its neck to suggest that is where you can remove the top and mix the drink in its body.

Cocktail Shaker, 1931
silver.
Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Restricted gift of Quinn E. Delaney;....
34.2016.1

A mostly silver-plate cocktail shaker with a U-form dominating the bottom segment, also known as a spun hemisphere, with an angled base prone in an outward direction at the bottom. In an upward direction are two steps inward to a tall cylindrical body resembling a form of a skyscraper with two more steps out and three shallow steps inward leading to a lid with a neck and a red-orange Catalin (polymer) stopper that remains inserted during pouring. The photograph captures the cocktail shaker in a front view against a medium gray background.

Cocktail Shaker, 1928
silver-plated nickel, catalin.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-46-a,b

This object was made by Meriden Silver Plate Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Silver Style no. 8E4 Cocktail Shaker

Silver Style no. 8E4 Cocktail Shaker
electroplated nickel silver, rosewood.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-30-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
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