Yellow unglazed stoneware butter dish with lid in shape of beehive with molded honeybees over basketweave hive with grape vine finial. White porcelain dish inside.
butter dishes (serving dishes)
molding (forming)
stoneware (pottery)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
bees (Apoidea superfamily)
beehives (apiaries)
caneware
vine scrolls
Stoneware
Molded
Cane Ware
Beehive
Bee
Vine
Dish, Butter
Loaned to the Fitchburg Art Museum, September 2000 to September 2002. Exhibition: Art, Industry and Craft.
On bottom: Impressed: ""WS & S/ 16"" [illeg. pencil marks]
Possibly Wilhelm Sattler & Son (Maker)
Possibly W. Schiller & Sons (Maker)
Aschach, Germany, N. Bavaria; Bodenbach, Bohemia
4 1/2 (H), 8 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Estate of Mrs. Jane N. Grew
1920.771A-C
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