American Decorative Arts
Photo credit: Richard P. Goodbody, Inc.
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Designer: Paul T. Frankl, American, born Austria, 1886–1958
Manufacturer: Amerith Division of Celluloid Manufacturing Company, American, 1928–1935

Vanity Set, “Rond” Pattern

1928–35

Amerith and Amer-glo

shoe horn: 1/4 × 5 7/8 × 1 1/2 in. (0.6 × 14.9 × 3.8 cm)
comb: 1/4 × 1 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (0.6 × 4.4 × 19.1 cm)
hand mirror: 3/8 × 5 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (1 × 14.6 × 27.6 cm)
hair brush: 1 3/8 × 4 × 6 5/8 in. (3.5 × 10.2 × 16.8 cm)
nail buffer (i
John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, B.A. 1959
2012.124.10.1-.6a-b
Geography: 
Designed in New York, New York
Manufactured in Newark, New Jersey
Status: 
On view*
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Tools and Equipment
Provenance: 

Purchased by John C. Waddell, New York, 2001

Bibliography: 

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), 285, no. 192.

John Stuart Gordon, “At Home in Modernism: The John C. Waddell Collection of American Design,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2012): 125, fig. 7.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.