Details
A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL SILVER SALT CELLARS
19TH CENTURY
In the Gothic style, each of triangular form on three openwork scroll, foliage and dragon's mask feet, the centers with three wells engraved between with grotesque animals and stylized coats-of-arms, the centers each formed as a saints, (repairs) apparently unmarked--73/8in. (18.7cm.) overall length (2)
19TH CENTURY
In the Gothic style, each of triangular form on three openwork scroll, foliage and dragon's mask feet, the centers with three wells engraved between with grotesque animals and stylized coats-of-arms, the centers each formed as a saints, (repairs) apparently unmarked--73/8in. (18.7cm.) overall length (2)
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan
J.P. Morgan, 1937 inventory
The Morgan Collection, Christie's, New York, October 26, 1982, lot 62
J.P. Morgan, 1937 inventory
The Morgan Collection, Christie's, New York, October 26, 1982, lot 62
Literature
J. Starkie Gardner, Old Silver-work Chiefly English From the XVth to the XVIIIth Centuries, London, 1903, plate XXIV, fig. 1 and 2 (as 16th century)
E. Alfred Jones, Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of J. Pierpont Morgan, London, 1908, p. 73, plate LXIV (as German 16th century,)
E. Alfred Jones, Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of J. Pierpont Morgan, London, 1908, p. 73, plate LXIV (as German 16th century,)
Exhibited
St. James's Court, London, 1902, case T, no.1