You'll find that this is a top quality butter dish. Here's bone china with a difference - the most successful tableware pattern in the world. It's something that's suited different lifestyles for decades past, and should do for decades to come. Try it...the haze of summertime...the sight of roses in full bloom...Harold Holdcroft captured it all in 1962 with Old Country Roses. Thats why Royal Albert's range of traditional tableware, with its familiar Montrose shaping, rose motif, and hand crafted gold edging, is something special.