H84.222.1

Dish. Description: white, glazed ceramic butter pat, with delicate decorative border in brown, tan, green and grey: wood, or vine-like line at edge with three clusters of oak leaves and acorns. Dimensions: 3 3/8" diam. 1/2" Condition: excellent History: Part of the service set from the Hotel Oakland, 13th and Alice, Oakland, CA. References/Remarks: see other pieces from this service in collections. For exhibit in Arcadia case, along with other Hotel Oakland pieces, Turning the Century. From the History Information Station: Object: Cup, plate, butter dish, tea menu, and brochure from the Hotel Oakland. History: Built in 1912, the Hotel Oakland still stands (despite extensive damage in the 1989 earthquake) at 13th and Alice Streets in downtown Oakland. Today it is a retirement residence. But it spent its first thirty years as a center of Oakland's social life, a meeting place for elite society. Its popular afternoon tea service was served on dishes sporting California Live Oak leaves and acorns. With its Spanish-style towers, its columns, gardens, and elegant public rooms, the Hotel Oakland represented the sophisticated prosperity of turn-of-the century California. Gifts of Laetitia Meyer and Bertha Toy