Blue and White Bird and Bonsai Pattern Japanese Butter Pat Dish Trinket Catchall

Butter pats, which were manufactured in a multitude of shapes and designs by the finest porcelain houses in the world, reached the height of fashion from approximately 1880 to 1910. No table was properly set during the Victorian era without small butter dishes. The Victorians loved excess - placing individual miniature plates, sometimes three inches in diameter, above and slightly to the left of center of the service plates. This example is a more modern issue, from Japan, but still quite desireable. Slightly less than 4" in diameter.