A WALTER VON NESSEN "DIPLOMAT" CHROMIUM-PLATED COFFEE SET, produced by Chase Brass & Copper Company, comprising coffee pot, sugar bowl and cover and creamer, each concave fluted oval, the pot and creamer with side black plastic handle, the pot with one flute convex forming spout, the detachable slightly raised cover topped by tapering black plastic finial, the creamer impressed 'CHASE U.S.A.' with firm's centaur logo --height of coffee pot 8¼in. (21cm.), the circular tray with black plastic ground and chromium plated curled over border--10½in. (26.5cm.) diameter (4)
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A WALTER VON NESSEN "DIPLOMAT" CHROMIUM-PLATED COFFEE SET, produced by Chase Brass & Copper Company, comprising coffee pot, sugar bowl and cover and creamer, each concave fluted oval, the pot and creamer with side black plastic handle, the pot with one flute convex forming spout, the detachable slightly raised cover topped by tapering black plastic finial, the creamer impressed 'CHASE U.S.A.' with firm's centaur logo --height of coffee pot 8¼in. (21cm.), the circular tray with black plastic ground and chromium plated curled over border--10½in. (26.5cm.) diameter (4)
Lot Essay
cf. Alastair Duncan, American Art Deco, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p.94, for an illustration of a similar model
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