Salt Cellar
ca. 1630-1640 (made)
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Salt cellar of tin-glazed earthenware and painted. Press-moulded form with winged cupids' heads on the long sides and cartouches at the ends. The interior is painted with a flowering plant and bands of geometric decoration in blue. The ends have respectively a winged cupid's head and the arms of the City of London, argent, a cross gules, in the first quarter a sword of the second. All the decoration is in blue, ochre, green, yellow and orange.
Body colour: Buff.
Condition: One of the short ends of the upper surface restored.
Glaze: Dull white with a shiny kwaart.
Shape: Flat on the underside with two pointed projections. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Body colour: Buff.
Condition: One of the short ends of the upper surface restored.
Glaze: Dull white with a shiny kwaart.
Shape: Flat on the underside with two pointed projections. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware and painted |
| Brief description | Salt cellar of tin-glazed earthenware and painted, possibly by Montague Close pottery or Pickleherring Pottery, Montague Close or Pickleherring, ca. 1630-1640 |
| Physical description | Salt cellar of tin-glazed earthenware and painted. Press-moulded form with winged cupids' heads on the long sides and cartouches at the ends. The interior is painted with a flowering plant and bands of geometric decoration in blue. The ends have respectively a winged cupid's head and the arms of the City of London, argent, a cross gules, in the first quarter a sword of the second. All the decoration is in blue, ochre, green, yellow and orange. Body colour: Buff. Condition: One of the short ends of the upper surface restored. Glaze: Dull white with a shiny kwaart. Shape: Flat on the underside with two pointed projections. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr J. H. Nesmyth |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Mr J.H. Nesmyth, Richmond, Surrey, 1958. |
| Production | London (Southwark, Montague Close or Pickleherring) |
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| Bibliographic reference | Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8 |
| Other number | G1. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.12-1958 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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