Antique Hand Painted Porcelain Butter Tub

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This double handled butter tub has an interior drain. The piece is early 20th C porcelain from the Nippon or … Read more This double handled butter tub has an interior drain. The piece is early 20th C porcelain from the Nippon or Meiji/Taisho era of Japanese export porcelain. The butter tub features hand painted pink and yellow-gold roses with cobalt blue banding with gilt accents. The interior drain is slightly domed with multiple holes designed to keep butter from sitting in a puddle. The butter tub could also be used to serve berries. the piece is marked "Hand Painted Nippon". See less