On View
On viewSaltcellars
Artist
Samuel Bartlett
1752 - 1821
Date1775 - 1795
Terms
- Saltcellars
- Silver
- Concord (Massachusetts)
Dimensions2.54 × 5.08 cm (1 × 2 in.)
MarkingsMarked "S.B" in a rectangle on the underside. Engraved with the flowing script monogram "MB."
Credit LineGift of the Cummings Davis Society (1990)
Object number1990.28
DescriptionSilver. One of a pair (1990.29). Circular salt with curved sides; three cast legs filed at the attachment to the body to a shell form with approx. fourteen lobes and with pad feet, filed gadrooning on the rim. The reeded rims and cast and filed feet are soldered to the raised bodies. Marked "S.B" and engraved with the unidentified contemporary script initials "MB."
Collections
- Silver
