Churn, Butter
- Object Name:
- Churn, Butter
- Object ID:
- 2013.500.053
- Creator:
- Nichols Boynton
- Place of Origin:
- Burlington, VT
- Date:
- 1854-1856
- Description:
- Butter churn. Salt-glazed stoneware. Five gallons. Ovoid cylindrical body. Freehand cobalt blue fern decoration on front. Impressed cobalt lettering just below rim: "NICHOLS BOYNTON / BURLINGTON VT / 5". Applied semicircular handles. Dark brown Albany slip glaze interior. With wooden dasher, consisting of oak handle and pine cover.
A. Stoneware churn
B. Dasher - Material:
- Stoneware
- Dimensions:
- H-17.9 Dia-11.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Source unknown. Placed on long-term loan at the Franklin Pierce Homestead in Hillsborough, NH, in the 1950s.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Butter churns, Butter, Butter making
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