A lidded ceramic dish for butter, thrown and painted by hand in Spain. The clay keeps the butter cool and spreadable, and the lid keeps everything else out of it. This one is Costa Azul — broad cobalt stripes on white.
Butter out of the fridge tears the bread. Butter left uncovered picks up the whole kitchen. This is the old answer to both.
Made by Alfar Tierra Cocida, a small pottery in Spain, thrown and painted by hand.
It lives on the table. We refill it with a fresh block once the last one is scraped down.