"Diplomat' Coffee Service | Yale University Art Gallery

about 1931

Not on view

Medium: Chromium-plated copper, Catalin
Dimensions: Coffeepot: 8 × 6 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (20.32 × 16.51 × 10.48 cm)
Creamer: 2 7/8 × 5 1/4 × 4 in. (7.3 × 13.34 × 10.16 cm)
Sugar bowl, with lid: 4 1/4 × 2 7/8 × 3 1/2 in. (10.8 × 7.3 × 8.89 cm)
Tray: 10 1/2 in. (26.67 cm)
Credit Line: Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
Accession Number: 1982.30A-D
Geography: Made in Waterbury, Connecticut, Designed in New York, New York
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Mark McDonald Ltd., New York, by 1982

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), 220–21, no. 144

Kristina Wilson, Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design during the Great Depression (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004), 52-53, 85, fig. 1.28

Susan Sternau, Art Deco: Flights of Artistic Fancy (New York: Todtri Productions Limited, 1997), 110-11, ill

"Acquisitions 1982," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 1 (Winter 1984), 58

Karen Davies, "Tastemaking in America: the birth of mass design," Industrial Design 30, no. 6 (November/December 1983), 34–35, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Marks

"[centaur] / CHASE / USA," incuse on underside of sugar bowl

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