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"Boontonware Deluxe" Sugar Bowl

Designed by: Belle Kogan (American, born in Russia, 1902 – 2000)
Manufactured by: Boonton Molding Company (active 1920–1981)
designed about 1951; manufactured 1951-1956
Object Place: Boonton, New Jersey

Medium/Technique Melamine (plastic) in Bon Bon Pink
Dimensions Overall: 6.4 x 15.6 x 11.1 cm (2 1/2 x 6 1/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession Number2010.545a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPlastics

DescriptionThe sugar bowl has two offset, flaring shaped handles. The lid has a flat central circular section and slightly sloping sides.
Marks MADE IN/Boonton/N.J./U.S.A./521-A (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)