Vanity Set, "Rond" Pattern Designer: Paul T. Frankl (American, born Austria, 1886–1958)
Manufacturer: Amerith Division of Celluloid Manufacturing Company (American, 1928–1935)

1928–35

American Decorative Arts

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Amerith and Amer-glo

Dimensions

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 (in box): 1 3/4 × 5 7/8 × 1 1/4 in. (4.4 × 14.9 × 3.2 cm)
powder jar (with lid): 2 7/8 × 5 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (7.3 × 13.3 × 13.3 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2012.124.10.1-.6a-b

Culture
Period

20th century

Classification
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Provenance

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
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Marks

"ROND / [image of stone arch] / AMERITH" stamped either on handle or underside of each piece

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