Butter Churns
  • Churn lid found in York, dating to the early 13th century
  • Fol. 65 of a 13th century psalter (BNF Latin 14284)
  • Fols. 65v and 83, History of the Holy Grail (BNF Fr. 19162), c. 1280-1290
  • A man churns butter in The Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS Add. 42130), c. 1325-1335
  • Fol. 3r from Romance of Alexander (Bodley 264), c. 1338-1344
  • Detail from the June fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410
  • The goodwyfe made butter, her dedes war full derne,
    She toke ayen the butter-melke and put het in the cheyrne

    Ballad of a tyrranical husband c. 1500

  • April in a book of hours (Musée du Petit-Palais, Dutuit B37, fol. 8r), 16th century
  • Rural scene by Marten van Cleve, 1527
  • Sitting figure by Albrecht Gelmers, in a choirstall at the Church of St. Katherine in Hoogstraten, c. 1532-1548
  • Woodcut of a woman at a churn
  • Farm-girl with butter-churn and egg-basket by Pieter Pieters
  • Two women at the churn