Item 2053
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful Blue and White Butter Crock with Lid in the Apricot with Honeycomb Pattern.
 
This beauty features a honeycomb background hosting the Word "Butter" on the Front Flanked by 2 Medallions with Apricots in Them. The honeycomb pattern is repeated on the lid.  Exceptionally strong mold lines and color on this piece! Measures 4" tall and 7" wide.
 
You can find a fine writeup on this item in Taylor and Lowrance's, Collector's Encyclopedia of Salt Glaze Stoneware, p. 105.
 
Excellent Condition. The base has a series of minor 1/8" nibbles inside the rim with one larger 1/2" chip, and fine interior crazing.  No base chips, hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.  The lid has a shallow 1/4" chip inside the overhanging lid, and a couple small indentations on the bottom of the overhang in the making.  
 
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