MINIATURE BREAD AND SALT DISH
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The oval dish has an openwork silver decoration against the silver gilt background. On this is an ovoid loaf of bread which opens to form a box. On the bread is a napkin and on this sits a salt cellar in the shape of a chair.
- Object name:
- MINIATURE BREAD AND SALT DISH
- Made from:
- Silver -- silver gilt
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1886
- Size:
- 12.7 cm (5 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.174
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK marks are: 1. St. George and the Dragon for Moscow;, 2. [transcription] for the tester and date;, 3. [transcription] for the maker
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973