We literally gasped when we saw this dish in AB Chao's fantastic Modern + Old = MOLD house tour. We picked up an identical dish while flea marketing in Portland, and scoured the internet for more info on it, to no avail.
Close-Up!: AB Chao's Divided Dish
All that ended when Flickr user lisamerito commented on the picture in AB Chao's Flickr set, with the goods: the dishes are the Boutonniere collection by Taylor Smith Taylor. Start your eBay search engines -- go!
The rest of the Boutonniere set doesn't have half as much appeal to us as this one dish; the other pieces have a wispy blue flower design on them. Come to think of it, when we picked up our dish, pieces from the rest of the set were nearby. But they looked so different that we thought someone had improvised an arrangement by matching the blue on the inside of the divided dish with the flowers on the others.
The dish's best feature (besides the white on the outside and blue on the inside -- beautiful) is its asymmetrical silhouette. It looks like a little Norse ship. We use ours to keep ginger and garilc handy by the stove.
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I have the same dish in brown--not as sweet as the blue by far, but I love the shape!
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I have this dish too!
I will post pictures soon.
I got mine at an estate sale in St Louis.
The lady called it a nut dish when she sold it to me.
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My mom and I found an entire set of these dishes at the Salvation Army last summer. The tea cups have adorable blue flowers on the outside, and the same blue on the inside. My mom ended up buying the whole set and even painted her living room to match!
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Please do not crimp on my TST ebay hunting! My wife and I have an incomplete set of this as our everyday dishes - we dig the 50's feel of the blue flowers - and the relish dish is definitely a favorite. The gravy boat, sugar bowl, casserole dishes, etc, have a really nice shape to them as well. They show up everywhere, and it is a fun set to collect because there are so many different pieces. Salt and pepper shakers? check. Juice glasses? Check. Butter dish? Check... What are hard to find in this set are the cereal bowls and the 8" luncheon plates (the bread/dessert plates are too small 6-5/8"). If you see 'em, pick em up and put em on ebay, please!
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