Butter Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Spherical butter dish consisting of a double-walled bowl on pedestal base with lobed circular foot and a pivoting cover decorated with three guilloche or engine-turned bands. Diaper pierced outer bowl has pendant cast openwork five-lobed shells applied at rim along with two scroll-bracket holders for a butter knife and two fittings for the ball-knob handles of the cover with pins on S-link chains to secure in place; a flat dish or liner pierced with an 8-pointed star design rests on rim of inner bowl. Struck incuse on pedestal underside "M'F'D & PLATED BY / REED & BARTON" and on bowl underside "81", both in roman letters. Cover and liner not marked. No butter knife.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Taunton
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Taunton
label: place used
content: United States: Nebraska, Omaha
label: place used
content: United States: Rhode Island, Ashaway
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. H. B. (Clara Babcock) Blackmar
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.61.0393
label: catalog number
content: 61.0393
label: accession number
content: 232677
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, butter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 6 in x 7 7/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 15.24 cm x 20.0025 cm