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What is the Pyrex pattern with the Amish farmer and his wife?
The farm couple, the rooster, the rake and the shovel. One pattern, two colourways, eleven years of production, and a size ladder that quadruples the price between the small bowl and the large one.
It is Butterprint. The Corning Museum of Glass records it as introduced in 1957 and manufactured until 1968, in turquoise on white and white on turquoise, with an Amish farmer and wife, a rooster, wheat, corn and farm tools. It debuted alongside Gooseberry on the new Cinderella nesting bowls.
The identification tells
Butterprint is easy once you know what is actually in the print, and easy to misname if you only remember “the turquoise one”. Work through these in order:
- Human figures. A man and a woman in Amish dress. No other Pyrex pattern of the period puts people on the glass, so this alone settles it.
- Farm tools. A rake and a shovel appear in the print, which is why the museum’s own tags for the pattern include “rake” and “shovel”.
- A rooster, wheat and corn filling the space between the figures.
- Two colourways, one design. Turquoise printed on white, and white printed on a turquoise ground. Both are Butterprint.
- Bowl shape. If it is a mixing bowl with a spout on one side and a handle on the other, it is a Cinderella bowl, and Butterprint was one of the two patterns those launched with.
Dates and variants, from the museum record
| Fact | Record |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 1957 |
| Manufactured | 1957 to 1968 |
| Colourways | Turquoise on white; white on turquoise |
| First appeared on | The new Cinderella nesting bowls, with Gooseberry |
| Promotional variants | Orange and pink Butterprint on white, and white Butterprint on pink, released in the late 1950s and early 1960s |
| Set releases | 470 Bake, Serve and Store and 500 Oven Refrigerator and Freezer sets in 1959; the 480 casserole set in 1960 |
| Part of | The Turquoise line released in 1963, with Snowflake and Multitone Blue |
| Discontinued | 1968 |
Source: the Corning Museum of Glass Pyrex pattern library, read 2 September 2026.
The 1963 Turquoise line matters for identification because it is why the same blue appears on more than one pattern. A turquoise ground does not mean Butterprint; the figures do.
The two patterns it gets confused with
Gooseberry
Introduced the same year, 1957, and manufactured to 1966. Also one of the first patterns on the Cinderella bowls, also designed by Philip Johnson, and issued in pink on white, white on pink, black on yellow, black on white and a promotional gold on beige. It has berries and leaves and no figures. If you can see a person, it is not Gooseberry.
Early American
Introduced 1962, manufactured to 1971, in Colonial brown with 22-karat gold — the first Pyrex pattern printed in gold. Confused with Butterprint only because both are described as folk or country prints; they share no colour and no motif.
What Butterprint is asking today
| Piece | Asking price | Stock flag |
|---|---|---|
| Butterprint Turquoise 5″ mixing bowl | $69.95 | In stock |
| Butterprint Turquoise 7″ mixing bowl | $69.95 | In stock |
| Butterprint Turquoise 8″ mixing bowl | $89.95 | In stock |
| Butterprint Turquoise 10″ mixing bowl | $299.95 | In stock |
| Full range of Butterprint listings matched | $12.00 – $499.95 | 30 listings |
Method: CJ product API, US advertisers, keyword pulls for Pyrex and for Butterprint, de-duplicated by link and title and filtered to titles naming Butterprint, pulled 30 September 2026. Prices are what a shopper pays: the sale price where the listing sets one. Correction: the 2 September version of this table showed list prices for the 5, 7 and 8 inch bowls ($79.95, $99.95 and $139.95) and a $28.00 floor that was also a list price.
Last verified 30 September 2026 against 30 live US Butterprint listings pulled from affiliate product feeds; the Corning Museum of Glass pattern record was read on 2 September 2026
The size ladder is the useful part. A 10-inch bowl asks more than four times the 5-inch, and that ratio holds across other Cinderella patterns in the same catalogue. Buy the small bowls if you want the pattern and the large ones only if you want the set — the premium is entirely about completing a nest, not about the print.
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Frequently asked
What is the Pyrex pattern with the farmer and his wife?
Butterprint. The Corning Museum of Glass pattern library gives its manufactured dates as 1957 to 1968 and describes it as an Amish print in turquoise on white and white on turquoise, with a farmer, a wife, a rooster, wheat and corn.
Is Butterprint the same as the Amish pattern?
Yes. Collectors call it Amish, Rooster, or Farmer and Wife; the museum's own name for it is Butterprint, and it appears under that name in retailer listings.
How much is Butterprint Pyrex worth?
Prices in a live US pull on 30 September 2026 ran from $12.00 to $499.95 across 30 listings. Turquoise mixing bowls by size: $69.95 for the 5 inch and the 7 inch, $89.95 for the 8 inch and $299.95 for the 10 inch.
What is a Cinderella bowl?
A nested mixing bowl with a spout on one side and a handle on the other, designed by John Philip Johnson. Butterprint and Gooseberry were the first two patterns released on them in 1957.
How do I tell Butterprint from Gooseberry?
Butterprint has human figures and farm tools. Gooseberry has berries and leaves and no figures at all. Both debuted in 1957, which is why they are so often confused.
Sources and scope
- Pattern dates, colourways, set numbers and design history: the Corning Museum of Glass Pyrex pattern library, read 2 September 2026.
- Prices and listing counts: CJ product API, US advertisers, pulled the same day.
- Images: Wikimedia Commons, licences given in the captions.
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