Lot Essay
The salt bears the original hand inscribed collection label of Owen Evan-Thomas to the underside of the base.
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PROBABLY CIRCA 1750
Details
A George II box wood salt
Probably circa 1750
With reeded and banded ornament, on a stepped circular foot
2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) diameter; 3in. (7.6cm.) high
Probably circa 1750
With reeded and banded ornament, on a stepped circular foot
2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) diameter; 3in. (7.6cm.) high
Provenance
Owen Evan-Thomas collection number 315. Thence Holloway Auctions, Banbury 6 April 1993. Levi Collection number 446.
Literature
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart Davies, Hertford England, 1973. Pl.67. Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1998. Page 98, fig.
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