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Ketchup container

designed about 1952; made about 1952-63
Object PlaceNew York, New York
Medium/TechniquePolyethylene (plastic)
DimensionsHeight x width: 4 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (10.8 x 9.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession number2010.745
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPlastics
ProvenanceEarly history unknown; By 2010, owned by A Well Kept Secret Antiques, Kingston, NH; 2010, purchased by Barbara M. and Gerald W. R. Ward, Portsmouth, NH; 2010, given to the MFA by the Wards
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