In c. 1929–34, Eliel Saarinen was produced in product design for the Wilcox Silver Plate Co. / International Silver Company in Meriden, CT. His iconic tea urn (c. 1934) was first exhibited in 1934–35 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Over the years, the tea urn has been widely exhibited, including in "St. Louis Modern" (2015–16) at the St Louis Art Museum, "Cranbrook Goes to the Movies: Films and Their Objects, 1925–1975" at the Cranbrook Art Museum (2014–15)., and in 2005–07, in the touring exhibition "Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design", organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, which also travelled to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. In 1951–52, the tea urn was featured in the "Eliel Saarinen Memorial Exhibition" which travelled to multiple venues across the United States. In addition to Cranbrook, the Dallas Museum and the St Louis Museum, The British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art also hold tea urn-related Eliel Saarinen designs.