Salt Cellar

Dateca. 1770

Artist/Maker Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

MediumSoft-paste porcelain

DimensionsOL: 4"; OW: 3 1/4"; OH: 2 7/8"

Credit LineGift of Mr. Samuel M. Clarke

Object number1993-300,2

DescriptionShell-shaped salt cellar, one of pair, soft-paste porcelain. Each of the pair of salt cellars in the shape of a scallop shell, resting on a jumbled bed of small shells and coral fragments. And each one painted in enamels with a tight bouquet of garden flowers surrounded by three or four leaf sprays; the front edges and the large shells gilt.
MarkingsOn the one with the blue tulip an impressed To. The mark appears on the irregular footrim, the width of which required placing the T above the o.
ProvenanceEx. coll: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Clarke; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Sidders, Herefordshire; Dealer Albert Amor Ltd., London, October 1985.