Butter pot

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Butter pot

Entry/Object ID

SS.2004.3

Description

Round salt-glazed stoneware butter pot, used for storing butter, with two pig-ear handles: cylindrical body tapers slightly to flattened bottom; incised band at top quarter of pot; below this a decorative frieze of cobalt underglaze festooning; handles with cobalt coloring at each terminus; middle of handle attached to body of pot; pot impressed "C.CROLIUS / NEW-YORK" at center top of front side.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Clarkson Crolius Jr.

Attribution

Maker

Date made

1835 - 1849

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

See description

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

7 in

Width

17 in

Depth

14-3/8 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 7 x 17 x 14 3/8 in. (17.8 x 43.2 x 36.5 cm)

Material

Salt-glazed stoneware

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Five prominent chips: outer rim, upper front left and upper front right, outer rim upper back right; inner rim at back right; and inner rim at front right; smaller chips all along rim; wear ro interior of crock at bottom; overall crackling of glaze; dark yellow streaks at front right; pit at rear center; large crack at bottom center.

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

The term "butter pot" is used here, and can be attributed due to similar forms pictured in 19th-century price lists. See plates 299 a.-b. and 300 in Decorated Stoneware Pottery of North America by Donald Blake Webster (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971). Note: some butter pots were produced with lids, while others were lidless. Webster's text also pictures a surviving butter pot in plate 68, page 78. The unmarked cylindrical pot pictured ostensibly dates c. 1840-45 and is similar in form, but is not identical. The sides are straight and do not taper like the butter pot catalogued here.

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Sunnyside, Cook's Pantry

Note Type

Department

Note

Curatorial