Butter Boat or Condiment Dish

Possibly Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

About 1770

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Cup and saucer of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, the cup slightly tapered and with leaf-molded loop handle, with a band of green and white quatrefoil motifs around the lower edge, the main body engine-turned to create a lilac and white checkerboard pattern with vertical columns of white oak leaf vines in between and green quatrefoils on the white squares, with a vine of oak leaves running around the upper edge, the conforming saucer with similar checkerboard pattern around the interior rim and a band of oak leaves around the well, with stylized acanthus leaves around the outer edge.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three Dancing Hours figures, all on a thin ground.
Small creamware two-handled cup covered with a pearl glaze on round foot decorated with a deep cobalt blue band, with two loop handles, split at the top and highlighted in cobalt blue, the body decorated with cobalt blue medallions on either side with festoons below and margents under the handles, the lip likewise edged in blue.
Sample cloth kit for color recommendations, paper templates for hearts and lines, and sewing needles used by Florence Gilbert Day to produce the Grapevine Quilt (1987.95.1).