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Butter chip

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1870-1891

GUSN

GUSN-179673

Description

Porcelain butter chip shaped like a leaf. Green glaze. Veins are impressed in leaf and edge is wavey.

Details

Descriptive Terms

butter chips
porcelain
Plate, Butter

Inscription

"J. McD & S / BOSTON" (Impressed on bottom, top row of text is curved)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Edge Malkin & Co. (Manufacturer)
Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Retailer)

Dimensions

3 x 2 7/8 x 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.3042.4

Places

Burslem (Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom)

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