Thermos Carafe, Model No. 539 | Yale University Art Gallery

Designed 1935; manufactured 1936–39

American Decorative Arts

Not on view

Medium: Aluminum, enameled steel, and glass
Dimensions: carafe, with stopper: 5 5/8 × 5 1/2 × 4 5/8 in. (14.3 × 14 × 11.7 cm)
tray: 1/2 × 9 1/4 × 6 5/8 in. (1.3 × 23.5 × 16.8 cm)
Credit Line: John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959
Accession Number: 2018.52.2.1-.2
Geography: Designed in New York, New York, Manufactured in Norwich, Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Purchased by John C. Waddell, New York, 2010, by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017

Bibliography

"Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2018), 7

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 302, no. 207

Object copyright

Not Assigned

Additional information

Marks

"THE AMERICAN THERMOS BOTTLE CO. / NORWICH, CONN. U.S.A. [in circle] / THE ONLY / THERMOS / REG. U.S. PAT OFFICE / NO 539 / VACUUM BOTTLE / DESIGNED BY / Henry Dreyfuss. [signature]" impressed into bottom of carafe

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