Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Golden butter dish in the shape of an artist's palette with brushes with silver trim. The palette has an incised design with three butterflies on a plant sprig. The basin includes an open fan, flowers, fish, stars and stripes and a double-ringed border.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898
- Date
- ca. 1880
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
- Medium
- silver plated, metal, gold
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 1.4 × 9.4 × 7.3 cm (9/16 × 3 11/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- butter dish
- Type
- butter dish
