CIRCA 1680

Details

AN ENGLISH PEWTER OCTAGONAL MASTER SALT
CIRCA 1680
With a rope-edge to top and foot and a band of relief cast vines around foot
3in. (7.6cm.) high; 5 11/16in. (14.5cm.) diameter

Provenance

Cyril Minchin collection.

Literature

Museum of London 1989, Pewter, A celebration of the craft, No.65.
Ullyett, Pewter, A guide for collectors, p.64.
J.Pewter.Soc. Spring 1980.

Exhibited

Reading Museum, 1969, No.130.

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Lot Essay

The term 'Master' is a reference to both the size of such salts and the possible restriction in their use to those at the head of the table. For similar see Cotterell, Pewter down the ages, Fig. 64. Cotterell describes this salt, now in the V & A Museum, as a 'Rara Avis' to the English collector.
It is interesting to compare the top of the salt with the saucer lot 115 in this sale.

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