This is Fiesta’s XL Covered Butter Dish in Scarlet — a two-piece ceramic butter keeper (base plus domed lid) in the fire-engine red Scarlet glaze. The XL is sized wider than a standard-stick butter dish; it takes a full European-style 1-pound butter block or a pair of domestic sticks side by side, which is how a lot of bakers and bread-bakers actually store butter.
It lives on the table or the counter rather than in the fridge — ceramic holds butter at a spreadable temperature without the crystals that form when butter goes back and forth between cold and warm. The lid seals well enough to keep odors out, and the Scarlet glaze makes it an anchor piece on a table rather than a utility dish hidden in a corner. Dishwasher-safe.
Fiesta has been making this dinnerware at its factory in Newell, West Virginia since 1936 — one of the longest-running domestic pottery operations in the country. Every piece is cast, fired, and glazed at that Newell plant, which is why the colors stay consistent from one collection to the next.
