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"Boontonware Deluxe" Large Platter
Designed by: Belle Kogan (American, born in Russia, 1902 – 2000)
Manufactured by: Boonton Molding Company (active 1920–1981)
Manufactured by: Boonton Molding Company (active 1920–1981)
designed about 1951; manufactured 1951-1956
Object Place: Boonton, New Jersey
Medium/Technique
Melamine (plastic) in Honeydew Green or Seafoam Green
Dimensions
Overall: 2.9 x 35.6 x 25.9 cm (1 1/8 x 14 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession Number2010.540
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPlastics
DescriptionThe oval platter has a flat center with curved edges rising to a thin lip with two opposing, gradually flared handles running along the bottom right and upper left sides.
Marks
MADE IN/Boonton/N.J./U.S.A./606-14 1/2 (Boonton is in script)
ProvenanceAround 2000 to 2010, purchased by Barbara and Gerald Ward, Portsmouth, NH, at various dealers, primarily in Maine and Hampshire, or acquired on eBay; 2010, given by the Wards to the MFA (Accession date: June 16, 2010)