Salt Dish
Salt Dish
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- Description
- Open, oval cylindrical piercework salt on four ball feet with a clear, cobalt blue glass liner. Flat frame for bottom is struck on underside between two feet "EPNS" to the left of three marks, a Prince of Wales feathers, a gondolier in gondola, and the raised gothic or Old English letters "D", "&", "S", all in individual clipped-corner surrounds; "3548" is stamped between the opposite two feet.
- Maker is Deykin & Sons at the Venetian Works, Birmingham, England; partnership active, 1854-1895, and specialized in producing electroplated wares which they marketed as Venetian Silver.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- dish, salt
- date made
- 1892-1895
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, Birmingham, Birmingham
- Physical Description
- silver plate (holder material)
- glass (insert or liner material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in x 3 in x 2 1/8 in; 5.08 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.3975 cm
- ID Number
- 1977.0918.10
- catalog number
- 1977.0918.10
- accession number
- 1977.0918
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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