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Palette-Shaped Butter Dish Butter Dish, ca. 1880
This is a butter dish. It was manufactured by Meriden Silver Plate Company. It is dated ca. 1880 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is silver plated, metal, gold. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
These butter pats show how Japonism influenced even the most everyday wares.
It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
- Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives Knives, 1880–91
- silver.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 1957-61-49-a,b
- Butter Dish With Fork (USA)
- chrome-plated metal, bakelite.
- Gift of Mel Byars.
- 1991-59-132-a/d
- Iroquois Casual Butter Dish And Lid, 1947
- glazed, molded porcelain.
- Gift of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Paul F. Walter Collection.
- 1999-42-32-a,b
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 1.4 × 9.4 × 7.3 cm (9/16 × 3 11/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
On underside of dish: [1] “MERIDEN SILVER PLATE CO / QUADRUPLE PLATE" in circle surrounding a lion rampant, impressed (manufacturer’s mark) [2] “181”, impressed (model number)
Cite this object as
Palette-Shaped Butter Dish Butter Dish, ca. 1880; Manufactured by Meriden Silver Plate Company (United States); USA; silver plated, metal, gold; H x W x D: 1.4 × 9.4 × 7.3 cm (9/16 × 3 11/16 × 2 7/8 in.); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund; 1995-148-5
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Passion for the Exotic: Japonism.
