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"Boonton" divided vegetable bowl with cover

(active 1920–1981)
1948–late 1950s
Object PlaceBoonton, New Jersey
Medium/TechniqueMelamine (plastic)
DimensionsOverall: 7 x 21 cm (2 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Height x diameter: 1.3 x 21 cm (1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)(lid)
Credit LineGift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession number2010.538a-b
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: 2010.539, 542.1-2, 546
Boonton Molding Company
1948–late 1950s
Group shot: 2010.539, 542.1-2, 546
Boonton Molding Company
1948–late 1950s
Group shot: 2010.539, 542.1-2, 546
Boonton Molding Company
1948–late 1950s
Group shot: 2010.539, 542.1-2, 546
Boonton Molding Company
1948–late 1950s
"Prolon Beverly" sugar bowl with lid
Prolon Plastics, a division of Prophylactic Brush Company
mid–1950s
Sugar bowl with lid
Marcrest Company
1950s
Residential lug soup bowl
Russel Wright
Designed 1953; made about 1953–60
Group shot: 2010.537.1-2
Belle Kogan
mid–1950s
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