Palette-Shaped Butter Dish
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Golden butter dish in the shape of an artist's palette with brushes with silver trim. The palette has an incised design with three butterflies on a plant sprig. The basin includes an open fan, flowers, fish, stars and stripes and a double-ringed border.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Meriden, Connecticut, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-148-5
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: butter dish
label: Type
content: butter dish
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver plated, metal, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 1.4 × 9.4 × 7.3 cm (9/16 × 3 11/16 × 2 7/8 in.)