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American Decorative Arts
Manufacturer: Boonton Molding Company, American, founded 1920
Manufacturer: American Cyanamid Company, American, founded 1907
Divided Vegetable Dish
introduced 1949–50
Melmac
2 1/2 × 10 in. (6.4 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Patricia E. Kane, Ph.D. 1987, and W. Scott Braznell, Art.A. 1967
2000.101.2
Geography:
Made in Boonton, New Jersey
Culture:
American
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Containers - Plastic
Provenance:
Patricia E. Kane and W. Scott Braznell, Hamden, Conn., by 2000
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions 2000,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2001): 154.
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), 401, no. 285.
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.
