Handmade ceramic french butter dish 
holds approximately one half stick of butter 
microwave safe
dishwasher safe
handmade on the potter's wheel in Long Beach, CA
 
Instructions for filling butter dish: 
Allow a stick of butter to get almost to room temperature.
Remove wax paper from butter.
Place stick vertically into butter chamber.
Place wax paper on top of the stick of butter.
Placing the heel of your hand on the wax paper, mash the butter into the chamber. If necessary use your fingers (keeping wax paper in place) to push butter more tightly into the chamber. The chamber doesn’t need to be full to the brim.
Put ¼ to ½ inch cool water in the base of the butter crock.
If it is very warm, add chipped ice to the water.
Put the top on the crock. Don’t worry about the butter getting wet—the water will be displaced by the butter chamber but it won’t go inside.