Description:
Chinese export porcelain salt decorated with the arms of Wyatt impaling Fowle in the Famille rose palette of iron red, green, rose, blue, black, white, purple, yellow and gilding. The crest is of Wyatt, "A demi lion rampant sable holding an arrow or feathered and barbed argent; the arms, "Gules on a fess or between four boars' heads three and one couped argent, three lions rampant sable"; impaling Fowle, "Argent a chevron gules, on a chief of the last three mullets of the first or." These are the arms of Wyatt of Kent and later of Braxted, Essex; the Fowle family lived in Sandhurst, Kent, and Salhurst, Sussex. This piece, sold to the Flynts by Elinor Gordon, may have come from Sotheby's 1960 London sale of 142 pieces of a tea and dinner service (formerly the property of Mrs. Janet Don, nee Wyatt), which included four salts. This elongated octagonal form with a flared foot copies a silver form known as trencher salts. There is a gold band and double gilt chain around edge of the well depression; each side is decorated with flower chains held up by gilt bows.
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