Gillinder and Sons
Butter Dish with Cover

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Maker Gillinder and Sons (Philadelphia, 1861–1930)Philadelphia, 1861–1930

CultureAmerican

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Butter Dish with Cover

Datec. 1880

Made inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

MediumNonlead glass

Dimensions(.A, Stand): 3 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (8.3 × 18.4 cm)
(.B, Cover): 5 3/4 × 5 13/16 in. (14.6 × 14.7 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Glenn

Object numberB.86.11.2.A,.B

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Docent Foyer (Sam Houston Hall)

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

GLASS

DescriptionThis glass butter dish, in a pattern today called “Westward Ho” but first named “Pioneer” by its manufacturer, was produced for a period of years just after the 1876 United States Centennial. The buffalo, deer, and log cabins decorating the body and the kneeling Native American figure forming the handle of the dish’s cover constitute a combination of highly romanticized images marketed at a time of aggressive westward expansion and settlement that devastated both Native American communities and the bison herds of the West.
ProvenanceMr. & Mrs. Oscar Glenn, Houston; given to MFAH, 1986.

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