Antique Noritake Celery Dish

Beautiful hand painted celery dish Made in Japan Hand painted The height of popularity for celery vases was from the 1830s to the 1880s, but they were still being made (and ostensibly foisted onto hapless young brides) well into the 1910s. For awhile, the vases coexisted peacefully with their counterpart the celery dish, a long, narrow, boat-shaped bowl somewhat resembling an inverted butter dish-more effective for serving cooked celery that was too flaccid to stand upright in a vase. (Heather Arndt Anderson/tastecooking)