Plate, “Northern Lights” Pattern, “Spirit of Today” Line

1928

Sterling silver

2 3/8 × 12 3/8 × 10 in. (6 × 31.4 × 25.4 cm), 12 oz., 15 dwt. (396 g)

John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959

2021.80.26

Geography:

Manufactured in Wallingford, Connecticut

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

American

Period:

20th century

Classification:

Containers - Metals

Provenance:

Sold to John C. Waddell, New York, 1990; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2021

Bibliography:

Marilyn F. Friedman, Selling Good Design: Promoting the Early Modern Interior (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2003), 80h, fig. Color plate 13.

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), 318, no. 217.

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