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Culture:English
Title:butter tub
Date Made:1780-1790
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed cream-colored earthenware (creamware)
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire or Yorkshire
Measurements:overall: 3 3/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 3 in; 8.5725 cm x 10.4775 cm x 7.62 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2006.33.79.2
Credit Line:Museum purchase with funds provided by Ray J. and Anne K. Groves
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
One of two English creamware oval butter tubs with a pair of standing flanges (simulating the staves of a bucket or piggin) and a domed cover with cut outs to fit around the flanges. The oval cover has a molded fruit (pomegranate) finial with a trailing stem and leaves terminal and two panels of an openwork pattern on each side. Condition: Small chip to one cover and light staining.

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