Ukrainian Maslenitsa Altar Dish ~ Vintage

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This beautiful Ukrainian Maslenitsa Altar Dish ~ Vintage is perfect for offerings in your ritual space or on your altar. Featuring stylized Rushnyk embroidery symbols covering it all around. Most people in the Ukrainian Canadian community are familiar with these Ukrainian- style ceramics. All strategically adorned with red, white, and black simulated embroidery design decals.

Maslenitsa, also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual. It is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent; that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha, equivalent to the West’s Sexagesima. The date of Maslenitsa changes every year, depending on the date of the celebration of Easter. Traditional attributes of the celebration are an effigy, sleigh rides, and festivities. Ukrainians cook pierogi and syrniki while Russians bake blini and flatbread, while Belarusians and 

The beautiful Rushnyk style embroidery symbols and cryptograms of the ancient world cover it all around. Most people in the Ukrainian Canadian community are familiar with these Ukrainian- style ceramics. All of them strategically adorned with red, white, and black simulated embroidery design decals.

The “embroidery” patterns on these ceramics look like typical, intricate Ukrainian cross-stitch patterns. They would adorn objects like ceramic statues, candles, or busts of the Holy Mother or Christ Jesus. Dr. Robert Klymasz, folklorist and retired curator from the Canadian Museum of Civilization, coined an appropriate slogan, calling them “Ukrainian logos.” In North America (especially in the early years), they have become emblematic of Ukrainian Canadian identity.

Ukrainian Canadian Dinnerware

Approx 5 inches

Vintage