- Image reference 2006AL0249
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Spice dish
- Place of origin:
Germany (made)
- Date:
ca. 1575 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Silver-gilt
- Museum number:
2109-1855
- Gallery location:
Silver, room 69, case 19
Small triangular salt cellars mounted on three feet were common pieces of tableware in affluent homes in late 16th-century Germany. The cities of Nuremberg and Augsburg dominated the goldsmiths’ craft in Germany from the 15th to the early 19th centuries. Engraved designs for silver flowed off their printing presses into workshops across Europe. Their goldsmiths and merchants travelled widely, the former sometimes settling in cities that promised new sources of patronage, the latter selling silver goods as far north as the Baltic Sea and as far east as Russia.
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