SALTCELLAR, ONE OF TWO
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: Second Floor Hallway
About this object
The ground color is pink with raised details in gold and with white fleurettes above the feet. On each of the three sides, between the three feet is a landscape, the same scenes being identical on each salt. The scenes are: a shepherd standing in a landscape with sheep and a cow, a shepherd standing in a landscape with sheep and a cow and with a farmhouse across a stream, a shepherd standing beside a river in a landscape with sheep and a small pyramid. The inside is white enamel.
- Object name:
- SALTCELLAR, ONE OF TWO
- Made from:
- Enamel on copper -- gilt copper
- Made in:
- ENGLAND: South Staffordshire, Bilston or Wednesbury
- Date made:
- ca. 1780
- Size:
- 3.5 × 6.5 cm (1 3/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.177.1
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- LABEL At the bottom a round paper sticker with a zig-zag edge and "I 29"
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973