Butter Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1871
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled circular butter dish with tall, straight-sided, round-top cover topped by a cast standing horned cow on four splayed legs with masks of a helmeted, bearded man above scroll feet; a removable pierced liner fits inside dishl. Top of cover has stamped and chased mimosa foliage forming an empty reserve at front. Two animal- or grotesque-mask handles and V-ended butter knife holder are attached at patterned band on dish. Dish is struck incuse on the underside of its flat bottom with a circular mark containing a pointed shield bordered by "MERIDEN / B. COMPANY" in sans serif letters above "4911". Cover and liner not marked. No butter knife.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Insilco Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0424.02
label: accession number
content: 1984.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0424.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, butter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 6 3/4 in; 15.875 cm x 20.955 cm x 17.145 cm