Covered Butter Dish

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1880

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Base: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Margaret Roper Moss

Object number66.75.101

Not on view

DescriptionCovered butter dish of pressed glass. Opal (clam broth). Lid has a swan finial. Bowl has two round handles exactly like those on a swan mustard jar. Frieze on both sides of bowl depicting two swans swimming. Good, some roughage on lid, crack in one handle.

Published ReferencesR.W. Lee, EARLY AMERICAN PRESSED GLASS, pg. 626, pl. 127, fig. 3.