Vintage butter dish featuring a mid-century modern atomic starburst design. Cream base with blue and black accents. item is a vintage Franciscan Atomic Starburst covered butter dish. The pattern, designed by George James, was introduced in 1954 and produced until 1968. It features a mid-century modern, space-age design with a turquoise, green, and yellow starburst motif on a speckled cream background. The dish shape is part of the "Eclipse" line of dinnerware. It was made from "malinite," a durable material resistant to thermal shock.