Butter belongs on the table rather than buried in the refrigerator door, and the Incanto Stone White Baroque Butter Dish makes the case. Swirling baroque relief, taken from the architectural curves of seventeenth-century Europe, runs across the lid, and the whole piece is handcrafted in Veneto from stoneware fired at high temperature until vitrified, impermeable, dense and resistant to chipping. The cover keeps a stick fresh and out of the way between meals, then lifts off at breakfast or beside a basket of bread at dinner. Oven, microwave, freezer and dishwasher safe handmade Italian serveware from the Incanto Stone collection, it is the kind of small, useful thing that makes a lasting wedding or housewarming gift.
