Vintage Ceramic Vegetable Serving Dish

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Description

This is a vintage ceramic dish designed in the shape of a leafy green vegetable (it resembles a cabbage leaf … Read more This is a vintage ceramic dish designed in the shape of a leafy green vegetable (it resembles a cabbage leaf or romaine lettuce).

Front
• The dish is elongated with a flared, textured top where the leaf veins are highlighted in bright green.
• The interior is decorated with colorful hand-painted vegetables: a carrot, parsley, and possibly a zucchini or celery stalk.
• The rim has a subtle gold trim, giving it a slightly more decorative touch.

Back
• The reverse side is unglazed ceramic with a cream tone, showing some age-related crazing (fine surface cracks typical in older ceramics).
• It has two small raised ceramic knobs, likely to help stabilize the dish or provide grip when hanging it on a wall.

Use & Style
• These types of dishes were often used as serving trays, relish or celery dishes, or purely as decorative wall hangings in mid-century kitchens.
• The whimsical vegetable motif and leaf-shaped form suggest it could be Italian majolica or Japanese export ware from the 1950s–1970s. See less