Salt Dish
Salt Dish
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- Description
- Raised, bulbous oval salt with applied cast gadrooned rim on four cast legs with shell knees and three-toed feet. Gilt-washed bowl is engraved on exterior with an armorial device depicting a crest of a bird standing left on a perch rising from a heraldic wreath. Underside of rounded bottom is engraved in script "A. E. S. / from her / Grandmother / 1842." above and below the maker's mark "I•R" struck at center. Torn red-bordered white paper label is inscribed with donor's name. No centerpoint visible. One of two salts, DL*378849-378850.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- dish, salt
- date made
- 1750-1775
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- gold (gilt wash material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 8.89 cm x 8.255 cm
- ID Number
- DL.378849
- catalog number
- 378849
- accession number
- 136183
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Caroline H. Addison
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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