Butter Dish
1930-1939 (manufactured)
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Butter dish with lid made from yellow-brown Bakelite. It has a circular base and slightly flared sides. The body has vertical ribs on the outside for decoration and for extra strength. The gently domed lid has a moulded design consisting of a pair of flying ducks above the word 'Butter' (in script), with bullrushes and a pond edge below.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Compression moulded Bakelite |
| Brief description | Butter dish, yellow-brown Bakelite with ducks flying over a pond; unknown manufacturer; England, probably 1930s |
| Physical description | Butter dish with lid made from yellow-brown Bakelite. It has a circular base and slightly flared sides. The body has vertical ribs on the outside for decoration and for extra strength. The gently domed lid has a moulded design consisting of a pair of flying ducks above the word 'Butter' (in script), with bullrushes and a pond edge below. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
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| Object history | Fred Bulmer, a collector based in Leeds, Yorkshire, offered his collection of ‘plastic antiques’ to the V&A in late 1982. The Museum chose to purchase 59 objects from Bulmer the following year (for acquisition papers see MA/1/B3395). The objects were divided among the Museum’s collections according to object type: Furniture and Woodwork taking 26 objects (W.50 to 75-1983), Metalwork 18 objects (M.49 to 66-1984) and Ceramics and Glass 14 objects (C.41 to 54-1984). |
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| Accession number | C.45-1984 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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