"Lifetime Ware" Pitcher Designer: Jon Hedu (American, 1914–1995)
Manufacturer: The Watertown Manufacturing Company (American, 1915–ca. 1965)

1946–60

American Decorative Arts

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

Medium

Melamine

Dimensions

8 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (21 × 16.51 × 10.8 cm)

Credit Line

Yale University Art Gallery

Accession Number

1999.135.1

Culture
Period

20th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Stratford Antique Center, Inc., Stratford, Conn., by 1999
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), 97, no. 55.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

pitchers

Marks

"WATERTOWN / Lifetime / WARE / MADE IN U.S.A.," on underside

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