Salt Cellar
ca. 1979 (made)
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Salt cellar is basically cylindrical, with foot-ring and depressed top decorated with a radiating frosted pattern. The ridge around the top is broken in one place and below the break is a hole for the salt. Plastic plug in the filling hole beneath.
Box: Cardboard box.
Box: Cardboard box.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain, glazed with clear glaze tending to bluish-green where it accumulates in underglaze engraved pattern, and plastic plug. |
| Brief description | Salt cellar, from a condiment set. Japan, MODERN CRAFTS, PRODUCTION, CERAMICS |
| Physical description | Salt cellar is basically cylindrical, with foot-ring and depressed top decorated with a radiating frosted pattern. The ridge around the top is broken in one place and below the break is a hole for the salt. Plastic plug in the filling hole beneath. Box: Cardboard box. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Greenish u'glaze mark, DESIGN.MORI MASAHIRO [kanji 'haku'] HAKUSAN JAPAN CBS/SONY FAMILY CLUB INC. |
| Object history | Given by the designer through the manufacturing factory. |
| Bibliographic reference | Japan Style handlist E1.
Part of the 'Royal White Custom Set'. See FE.111-1981 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FE.110B-1981 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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