Object Details
- Description
- Upright cylindrical wooden handle with ball finial, painted light green, surmounting bent steel wire masher composed of inverted U-shape support leading to long closely spaced horizontal loops.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Henry Dreyfuss , American, 1904 – 1972
- Manufacturer
- Washburn Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, American, 1880 - 1975
- Date
- ca. 1935
- Credit Line
- Gift of George R. Kravis II
- Medium
- Chrome-plated steel, steel wire, painted wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 26.7 × 10.2 × 7.6 cm (10 1/2 in. × 4 in. × 3 in.)
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Potato masher
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