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"General" butter dish

The Hall China Company (East Liverpool, Ohio, active 1903 to the present)
Retailed by: Westinghouse Electric Company (American)
about 1939
Object Place: East Liverpool, Ohio

Medium/Technique Stoneware with "Garden Green" glaze
Dimensions 9.5 x 18.4 x 11.4 cm (3 3/4 x 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession Number2001.914.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

DescriptionGreen covered butter dish, bullet-shaped in form, with straight end and rounded end, on flat base, with high ribbed cover of streamlined form; handle recessed in lid; marked on base; white interior.
Marks In black on underside of bottom: "Made Exclusively for / WESTINGHOUSE By / The Hall China Co. / Made in U.S.A."
ProvenancePurchased by Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, November 2001 from Ebay; to MFA, 2001, gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.