A rare Plymouth asparagus butter boat

A rare Plymouth leaf shaped small asparagus butter boat, with angular stalk loop handle, painted in underglaze blue with two trailing flower sprays, the interior painted with a flower, within a diaper border, on three short feet modelled as scrolling leaves, 4 1/8" long, circa 1770

See Bernard Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century, plate 94 (C), for a similar butter boat 

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