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Group shot: 2010.537.1-2
"Boontonware" pepper shaker
Group shot: 2010.537.1-2

"Boontonware" pepper shaker

Belle Kogan (American, born in Russia, 1902 – 2000)
Boonton Molding Company (active 1920–1981)
mid–1950s
Object PlaceBoonton, New Jersey
Medium/TechniqueMelamine (plastic)
DimensionsOverall: 8.1 x 1.9 cm (3 3/16 x 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession number2010.537.2
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPlastics
Collections
ProvenanceEarly history unknown; purchased by Barbara and Gerald Ward, Portsmouth, NH, at various dealers, primarily in Maine and Hampshire, or acquired on eBay, from ca. 2000 to 2010; 2010, given by the Wards to the MFA
Group shot: 2010.537.1-2
Belle Kogan
mid–1950s
Group shot: 2010.540, 541a-b, 545a-b
Belle Kogan
1948–late 1950s
Group shot: 2010.540, 541a-b, 545a-b
Belle Kogan
1948–late 1950s
Group shot: 2010.544 and 2010.543
Belle Kogan
mid–1950s
Group shot: 2010.544 and 2010.543
Belle Kogan
mid–1950s
Group shot: 2010.540, 541a-b, 545a-b
Belle Kogan
1948–late 1950s
Group shot: 2010.540, 541a-b, 545a-b
Belle Kogan
1948–late 1950s
Group shot: 2010.540, 541a-b, 545a-b
Belle Kogan
1948–late 1950s
"Smug" clock
Belle Kogan
designed 1934, made 1934–1939
Residential lug soup bowl
Russel Wright
Designed 1953; made about 1953–60
"Boonton" divided vegetable bowl with cover
Boonton Molding Company
1948–late 1950s
Group shot: 2010.539, 542.1-2, 546
Boonton Molding Company
1948–late 1950s