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Title:
Orange dish
Object name(s):
tableware; bowl
Brief description:
An orange and beige swirled design dish, compression moulded in urea formaldehyde using Beetle moulding powder, first released in 1925 by British Cyanides Co. (who went on to become British Industrial Plastics in 1936). The dish was given by the company to the donor's grandmother, who worked as a cleaner with BIP from 1915.
Collection:
Museum of Design in Plastics
Associated concept:
house and garden
Colour:
orange
Colour:
brown
Dimension:
height 45 mm
Dimension:
diameter 107 mm
Material:
plastic
Material:
UF
Material:
urea formaldehyde
Object name:
tableware; bowl
Object number:
AIBDC : 009117
Object production organisation:
Unknown
Organisation's association:
Manufacturer
Object production person:
Unknown
Person's association:
Designer
Object production place:
UK
Technique:
compression moulded

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/092ce300-a3ba-35c9-a2ee-caec67a7743f

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/092ce300-a3ba-35c9-a2ee-caec67a7743f, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY

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