Elan Craft Pottery Hand-Decorated Lidded Butter Dish – Welsh Pottery

Vintage Elan Craft Pottery Lidded Butter Dish

A distinctive vintage Welsh pottery butter dish by Elan Craft, comprising a rectangular lidded dish with matching underplate.

The cream-coloured pottery is decorated with an abstract hand-painted design in warm brown, black and muted green tones, giving the piece a strong mid-century studio pottery character.

Size: approximately 7 inches long.

Condition:
In good vintage condition with no chips or cracks noted. Please see all photographs for condition, decoration and the Elan Craft Pottery Wales mark.

About Elan Craft Pottery

Elan Craft is a Welsh pottery name found on a range of vintage decorative and domestic ceramics. Surviving marked pieces include lidded kitchenware and other characterful handmade forms, although reliable published information about the pottery itself is limited.

Because the history of Elan Craft is not as well documented as some larger Welsh potteries, marked examples are particularly useful to collectors when identifying its work.

Discover more Welsh pottery and identification information in our Welsh Studio Pottery identification and collecting guide.