Item 3531
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful Blue and White Stoneware Butter Crock in the Open Rose Pattern.
 
This beauty features a Waffle Background with Six Open Roses Around the Middle. The lid repeats the waffle background.  Diffused blue coloration.  Measures 3 3/4" tall and 6" wide across the top.
 
As you know, not a common pattern.  See Terry Taylor and Terry and Kay Lowrance, Collector's Encyclopedia of Salt Glaze Stoneware, pp. 119-120. 
 
Very Good Condition.  The base has a 1/2" chip on the outside of the rim (closeup) and a small rust stain inside.  No inner rim or base chips, hairlines, cracks, or restoration.  The lid has some small flakes on the underside at the edge (1/4" or less) and some adjacent chips on the outer edge in one place (closeup).  No hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.  A 1" drying line on the seating ring on the underside in the making. 
 
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