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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; Great Britain: Yorkshire; probably Swinton or Leeds
Measurements:overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in x 4 in; 8.89 cm x 13.0175 cm x 10.16 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2006.33.76.1
Credit Line:Museum Purchase with funds provided by Ray J. and Anne K. Groves
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English creamware butter tub with cover and stand (HD 2006.33.76.2). The slightly domed lid has a molded flower finial with molded leaves and a band of openwork decoration between two rouletted bands of beads. The cylindrical tub body engine-turned horizontal ribbing and rouletted bead borders around the top and botton edges; and two attached double entwined rope handles with flower terminals. A sugar bowl and cover with similar engine turning is illustrated in Dr. Alwyn Cox, Swinton Creamware and Pearlware, in Creamware Re-examined (2005), p. 135, pl. 72.

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