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"Boontonware Deluxe" Creamer
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; color introduced 1956
Object Place: Boonton, New Jersey
Medium/Technique
Melamine (plastic) in Bon Bon Pink
Dimensions
Overall: 6.5 x 14 x 10.2 cm (2 9/16 x 5 1/2 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession Number2010.541a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPlastics
DescriptionThe bulbous creamer has a narrow, circular base that gradually flares to a rolled rim. A slightly protruding pointed spout, opposes a small circular handle with a flat top in the shape of a parabola. The saucer has a central flat circular section, and slightly curves up to the outer edges and has a flared, rounded rim.
Marks
MADE IN/Boonton/N.J./U.S.A./521-C (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)