Set, Dresser
Date: 1920s
Medium: Plastic (bakelite)
Classification: Decorative Arts
Object number: 1995.17.1-.6
Label text:Part of Bakelite dresser set purchased to be on display and accessible to the public. Bakelite is an early plastic, it is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. It was developed by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Kaekeland in Yonkers, New York in 1907.
DescriptionIvory-yellow coloured plastic dresser set known as "pearl on amber" or Bakelite.
.1: tray
.2: hairbrush
.3: comb
.4: mirror
.1: tray
.2: hairbrush
.3: comb
.4: mirror
Not on display
In Collection(s)