Double Salt Cellar

1777-1788 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Double salt cellar, painted with scattered flowers, and the mouldings picked out in pink; the front painted in blue with cipher of Louis-Philippe, duc de Chartres.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Porcelain double salt cellar decorated with pink on mouldings and flowers, by Seguin's porcelain factory, Vincennes, 1777-1788
Physical description
Double salt cellar, painted with scattered flowers, and the mouldings picked out in pink; the front painted in blue with cipher of Louis-Philippe, duc de Chartres.
Marks and inscriptions
a heraldic label (painted in underglaze blue)
Gallery label
(07/06/2004)
Gallery 128 Decant 2003

The front bears the cipher of Louis-Philippe, duc de Chartres
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.510A-1909

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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