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Butter Dish
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Silver, American
Rights: Public Domain
The American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Guerdon Holden Nelson Cyril Irwin Nelson Nicholas Macy Nelson and Michael Underhill Nelson in devoted memory of their grandmother Elinor Irwin Holden and their mother Elise Macy Nelson 1981
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