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A Victorian mustard pot and saltcellar with embossed decoration featuring the signs of the Zodiac, by George Fox London 1875 (also part marked on the lid of the mustard pot), crested for Butterfield .
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These pieces were purchased at the auction of the contents of Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1989. Thoresby Hall was the home of the late Marie- Louise Roosevelt Pierrepoint (nee Butterfield), Countess Manvers (1889-1984). Marie-Louise was the widow of the 6th and last Earl Manvers (1881-1955) but the crest on these pieces shows that they were inherited through her family rather than his.

The Butterfields were prominent members of the Yorkshire wool trade and in the 1830s they expanded their horizons by exporting their products to America and moving to New York.

Marie-Louise Roosevelt Butterfield was the daughter of Sir Frederick Butterfield of Cliffe Castle (in Keighley, Yorkshire) and his American wife Jessie Ridgway of Philadelphia. Her middle name derived from her American grandmother Mary Roosevelt, a member of the extended Roosevelt family.

The family also retained their links in Yorkshire- Cliffe Castle, originally Cliffe Hall, is situated above Keighley and was built in the Gothic style for Christopher Netherwood between 1828 and 1833. Henry Isaac Butterfield (1819-1910) purchased it in 1848 and between 1875 and 1880 enlarged it considerably (including the griffin crest as a prominent part of the decoration). The house and estate were then inherited by his son, Sir Frederick (1858-1943) and his granddaughter Marie-Louise, Countess Manvers. She sold the house and estate to the town of Keighley in 1949 and in 1955 the house was converted into part of Keighley Museum.

In 1949 Countess Manvers removed much of the contents of Cliffe Castle to her marital home at Thoresby Hall, from which they were sold at auction in 1989.

See stock number 7483 for two further pieces of the same model but without the provenance of these condiments.