1934 Copper Pitcher, Chase Brass & Copper Co, Designed By Ruth Gerth, 2 Quart
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:53616781 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
| Object Type: Pitcher | Material: Copper |
Vintage 2 Quart Copper Pitcher. Made by The Chase Brass and Copper Company, and first appeared in their 1934 catalog. Designed by Ruth Gerth.
Designer: Ruth L. Gerth (1897 - 1952) attended the Chicago Art Institute and was interested in industrial design. Her most prominent client was Chase Brass and Copper, for whom she designed novelties and planned the offices, gift shop, showrooms, and accessory displays in the company's new offices in the Chase Tower in ...Manhattan (now known as The Mercantile Building) in the 1930s. Together with her husband William Gerth, she founded the design firm Gerth and Gerth, which was responsible for the design of over 1000 objects. Some of her items have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
Manufacturer: The Chase Brass and Copper Company was founded in 1876 in Waterbury, Connecticut and is currently headquartered in Montpelier, Ohio. In the 1930s, the company entered the consumer market with a line of Art Deco household items, created by leading designers of the day such as Russel Wright, Rockwell Kent and Walter VonNessen. They were usually signed with the distinctive company logo of a centaur drawing a bow. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City has several of the company's Art Deco household items in their collection.
Trademark: On October 6, 1928, the Chase centaur trademark was announced in the Saturday Evening Post. The figure is a half-man and half-horse because it was masculine, virile, aggressive, picturesque and most of all difficult for most people to describe readily. Therefore, the tendency would be for people to talk about it as the "CHASE mark", rather than trying to think what the word is to describe the mark.
Designer: Ruth L. Gerth (1897 - 1952) attended the Chicago Art Institute and was interested in industrial design. Her most prominent client was Chase Brass and Copper, for whom she designed novelties and planned the offices, gift shop, showrooms, and accessory displays in the company's new offices in the Chase Tower in ...Manhattan (now known as The Mercantile Building) in the 1930s. Together with her husband William Gerth, she founded the design firm Gerth and Gerth, which was responsible for the design of over 1000 objects. Some of her items have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
Manufacturer: The Chase Brass and Copper Company was founded in 1876 in Waterbury, Connecticut and is currently headquartered in Montpelier, Ohio. In the 1930s, the company entered the consumer market with a line of Art Deco household items, created by leading designers of the day such as Russel Wright, Rockwell Kent and Walter VonNessen. They were usually signed with the distinctive company logo of a centaur drawing a bow. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City has several of the company's Art Deco household items in their collection.
Trademark: On October 6, 1928, the Chase centaur trademark was announced in the Saturday Evening Post. The figure is a half-man and half-horse because it was masculine, virile, aggressive, picturesque and most of all difficult for most people to describe readily. Therefore, the tendency would be for people to talk about it as the "CHASE mark", rather than trying to think what the word is to describe the mark.
