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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 3/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 11.1125 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2006.33.78
Credit Line:Museum purchase with funds provided by Ray J. and Anne K. Groves
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
English creamware cylindrical butter tub with a pair of standing flanges (simulating the staves of a bucket or piggin) and a flat cover with cut outs to fit around the flanges. The cover has a cord loop handle with a trailing flower and leaf terminal, a band of an openwork pattern, and a rouletted band of beads around the rim edge. The tub body has engine-turned horizontal ribbing and rouletted bead borders around the top and bottom edges.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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