Each finely painted with fruit and vegetables, flanked by branch handles, the covers with serrated rims
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) high

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 1963.
Engagement present to Neva Goodwin & Walter Kaiser, December 1966.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 169.

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 218, no. 231.

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This pair of ice cream coolers once belonged to my mother and were on the third floor in Kykuit. We acquired them in 1963 when there was a partial distribution of Kykuit furnishings. Three years later we gave them to our daughter Neva, but we reacquired them when they were sold at auction in 1985.
D.R.