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 All of the work here is made by a small group of turners in Maine – Mark Baldwin of Borealis Press, Peter Keniston of Turner, and Temple Blackwood in Castine. There may be similarities between some pieces but no two pieces are just the same. New work is added regularly and some new turners may join in too.

Many of these lidded bowls are an elegant and practical way to keep butter out of the refrigerator – or in it if you prefer. They are so handy that a Borealis Butter Bowl Cult has sprung up and may run a candidate for president or a school board near you. Lauren Murray is one of the founding cult members. She writes: “Domestic life began anew when my butter bowl arrived. I depend on her completely. My guests won’t leave.”

Results 101-113 of 113 items (48 per page)

T-013 - Lidded Bowl - SOLD

Oak, oil paint on lid.
4½″ x 4″ $80.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

In our house this would be a butter bowl. We can’t insist on what it is in your house but we’d love to know.

Cost each: $80.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-013 - Lidded Bowl - SOLD

Oak, oil paint on lid.
4½″ x 4″ $80.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

In our house this would be a butter bowl. We can’t insist on what it is in your house but we’d love to know.

Cost each: $80.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-012 - Small hors d'oeuvre dish - SOLD

Cypress. 5½″ x 1¾″ $40
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Elegantly serve hummus or salsa, olives, nuts, malt balls, or rose petals.

Cost each: $40.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-012 - Small hors d'oeuvre dish - SOLD

Cypress. 5½″ x 1¾″ $40
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Elegantly serve hummus or salsa, olives, nuts, malt balls, or rose petals.

Cost each: $40.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-011 - Elm Dish - SOLD

American elm. 7½″ x 1¾″ $85
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

The American elm is one of the hardiest trees, or at least used to be before most were killed by Dutch Elm Disease, though varieties are developing that may be more resistant. This dish is from one of the old unfortunates. It grew on the Old Ferry Road in Castine, Maine.

Cost each: $85.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-011 - Elm Dish - SOLD

Cost each: $85.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-010 - Serving Bowl - SOLD

Black walnut and maple. 8″ x 2″ $90
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Black walnut and sugar maple, two beautifully contrasting woods. Picture any color serving on the table.

Cost each: $90.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-010 - Serving Bowl - SOLD

Black walnut and maple. 8″ x 2″ $90
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Black walnut and sugar maple, two beautifully contrasting woods. Picture any color serving on the table.

Cost each: $90.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-009 - Spalted Birch Bowl - SOLD

Yellow Birch
8½″ x 3¼″ $120
Peter Keniston, Turner Maine

Perfect for salad – you can see that the color goes nicely with green. Yellow birch (also called golden) is named for the color of the bark. It is the largest of the birches in North America and can live for 150, even 300 years if it’s highly combustible bark doesn’t catch fire.

Cost each: $120.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-009 - Spalted Birch Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $120.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-008 - Yarn Bowl - SOLD

Cherry
7½″ x 3¼″ $95
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

We find yarn bowls online, probably from Asia, for remarkably little money. They are pretty enough but, not so delicately turned and, Temple says, “never with the yarn hole hand-carved from a knot in the wood where the swirl of grain focuses the attention to the harmony of wood and wool.” Temple is a master turner in the village of Castine, not far from Borealis Press.

Cost each: $95.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-008 - Yarn Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $95.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-007 - Tiger Maple Vase - SOLD

8½″ x 3″ $50
Peter Keniston, Turner Maine

A person has to split a lot of firewood to find (and recognize) a piece like this.

Cost each: $50.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-007 - Tiger Maple Vase - SOLD

8½″ x 3″ $50
Peter Keniston, Turner Maine

A person has to split a lot of firewood to find (and recognize) a piece like this.

Cost each: $50.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-006 - Serving Bowl - SOLD

Cherry
5¾″ x 3″ $88
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

This bowl is not made to live as a decoration on a shelf. It’s made to enjoy its feel as you pass it around the table with a steaming mountain of mashed turnips with garlic, capers, and butter – or perhaps a pyramid of chocolate truffles with a garnish of fresh mint leaves.

Cost each: $88.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-006 - Serving Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $88.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-005 - Cherry Burl - SOLD

7″ x 3½″ $265
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

Burls are those bulbous protuberances on a tree’s trunk or roots that can be the size of a small melon or a large beach ball. Burls are caused by some sort of stress but the result for the patient woodworker is wildly twisted and beautiful grain, or, occasionally, the excitement of chunks of an almost finished bowl flying off the lathe.

Cost each: $265.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-005 - Cherry Burl - SOLD

Cost each: $265.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-004 - Butter Bowl Red - SOLD

Poplar, teak, with oil paint.
5½″ x 4″ $68.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

The proprietor of this business would call every lidded bowl a butter bowl, but that may (possibly) not recognize that other people can have a different opinion. So please go ahead and imagine sugar, or paper clips, or pocket change. We’ll still call it a butter bowl.

Cost each: $68.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-004 - Butter Bowl Red - SOLD

Cost each: $68.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-003 - Lidded Bowl - SOLD

(Not a propeller)
Old cherry with a new cherry lid.
Bowl is 4½″ x 2½″ $90.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

In 1915 cherry logs were hauled across Maine’s Green Lake for WWI airplane propellers. The ice broke and logs stayed on the bottom until Spud Davis and Gene King came home from WWII and salvaged them for their new Associated Builders in Ellsworth. I worked for Gene in the early 1970s and when I left he gave me the remaining planks too cracked and wormy for commercial use. This bowl is one of a few small pieces left of the would-be propeller wood. There are a couple of what we call worm tracks on the side and bottom, but really they are the exit holes from a small beetle that was born and came to maturity inside the log.
We think of this as a Butter Bowl, but we won’t take it back if you use it for something else.

Cost each: $90.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-003 - Lidded Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $90.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-002 - Cypress Butter Bowl - SOLD

Lidded. Cypress fir, teak, oil paint.
4½″ x 5″ $68.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

A butter bowl? It makes sense but sugar or malt balls would be just as happy.

Cost each: $68.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-002 - Cypress Butter Bowl - SOLD

Lidded. Cypress fir, teak, oil paint.
4½″ x 5″ $68.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

A butter bowl? It makes sense but sugar or malt balls would be just as happy.

Cost each: $68.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-001 - Butter Bowl - SOLD

Flame maple.
5¾″ x 3″ + cypress lid. $88
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

“Flame” is one name for this kind of across-the-grain figuring. It’s also called Tiger, Curly – and Fiddle-back because it is prized for violins.

Cost each: $88.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-001 - Butter Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $88.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

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