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Circa 1938-1948: Collectors of solid color vintage Homer Laughlin China will appreciate how hard it is to find the butter dishes, especially in the earliest colors, such as this example in mauve blue. What a great addition to the collection! The Harlequin butter dish shape was borrowed from a line called Jade, which was designed in the early 1930s. Referred to as the 1/2 pound butter, all examples are hard to find. Early pottery techniques include a molded ram pressed base, a slip cast finial that would have been hand attached to the delicate slip cast lid along with hand dipping into the glaze piece by piece. This example in the early mauve blue color is in excellent condition. Please note the underside of the bases three sager marks. Sager marks are where the pottery was place onto cones (stilts) inside the kiln for firing. Where the cones meet the freshly glazed pottery they stick slightly and the glaze is disturbed. This transfer of glaze to stilt is often confused as chips from begining collectors. This example has a sager mark very close to the edge of the base but it is not a chip, simply part of the manufacturing process. The glaze is spectacular, bright and rich and the piece is without scratches or damage. Measures 9 1/8" w x 3 3/4" h.
