Salt Dish

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Description:

Nouveau-style salt with a rectangular cut glass insert or liner resting inside a frame supported by four undulating looped wire supports attached to a larger, shallow, flared, rectangular tray. Liner has crenellated rim and bands of diamonds and flutes on sides. Tray has a fine cabled rim and pairs of voluted leaves where supports join at ends. No marks. One of a pair, DL*66.0542A-B.

Date Made: ca 1900

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United Kingdom: EnglandPlace Used: United Kingdom: England, South Tyneside, South ShieldsUnited States: Wisconsin, MenomonieUnited States: Minnesota, Lake Park

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, Domestic Furnishings

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Credit Line: Gift of John H. Crea

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: DL.66.0542BCatalog Number: 66.0542BAccession Number: 265238

Object Name: dish, salt

Physical Description: silver plate (holder material)glass (insert or liner material)Measurements: overall: 2 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 11.43 cm x 6.985 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-9c8f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_301135

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