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1900-1991
GUSN-6067
Blue transfer print decoration on white body; pattern is swag border with overall floral, fruit and butterfly central motif. .4) Covered muffin dish or butter dish; larged domed top with double scroll handle at top, with two air hole perforations; dish or underplate is circular with small rim and deep well.
butter dishes (serving dishes)
earthenware
transfer printing
figure- and animal-derived motifs
butterflies
floral patterns
fruit
swags
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Transfer Printed
Floral
Fruit
Butterfly
Swag
DISH, BUTTER
Marked on bottom: ""Booth's Silicon China/ Made in England/Gilman Collamore & Co. New York.""
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Booth's Ltd. (Maker)
Tunstall, England; Tunstall, England, Staffordshire
2.75 x 7.375 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1121.4AB
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