Dish with Lid, ("Aurora") Serving;Aurora Serving Dish

From Mattatuck Museum

Chase Brass & Copper Company Inc (created by)
Mattatuck Historical Soc (owned by)
Walter Von Nessen (associated with)

1936 – 1938 (Date manufactured/created)
1936 – 1938 (Date manufactured/created)

Chromium; plastic (bakelite), Chromium; plastic (bakelite)

Serving Dish, Serving Dish

4 in.4 in. H X 9 in.9 in. W X 8 in.8 in. D X L , Weight , 5 3/4 in base diameter5 3/4 in base diameter Diameter , Circumference Measurement Notes:

Aurora Service Dish. The 1936-37 catalog suggests this vegetable dish "can also be used without the cover for flowers, fruit, desserts, nuts or popcorn, potatoe chips or candy."
The 1936-37 catalog suggests this vegetable dish "can also be used without the cover for flowers, fruit, desserts, nuts or popcorn, potatoe chips or candy."

The "Aurora Service Dish" (Chase Item No. 17061) was designed by Walter von Nessen. 

Gift given by Brenda Anderson-Killer, in memory of her uncle, Howard F. Reichenbach, industrial designer at Chase Industries, Waterbury, CT for more than 25 years
Gift given by Brenda Anderson-Killer, in memory of her uncle, Howard F. Reichenbach, industrial designer at Chase Industries, Waterbury, CT for more than 25 years

Accession/ID Number 2006.5.20 A-B