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Butter Dish with Lid, "Jumbo" pattern

Catalogue Description:
Colorless pressed glass butter dish (a) and fitted lid (b), "Jumbo" pattern. Round dish has flat bottom and two ringed handles; a male face (dramatic mask?) attached on underside end of each handle. Dish supported by a molded conical pedestal with a band of fluting around upper part of pedestal. The lid rises to a flat dome, then a second tier of a cylindrical fluted knob atop which stands a frosted elephant finial.


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