Description:
Silver shape salt, compressed, spherical body with a rounded rim, curved sides and three lion's- mask-and-paw feet. Impressed " wedgwood" and the incised letter mark "M" on the base. This form appears in the Wedgwood Creamware Shape Book owned by the V&A/Wedgwood Archives, Wedgwood Museum, in Barlaston. The form is listed on page 13, labeled "Salts" and is #317 "round on foot." Salt sellers of this enduring form are difficult to date. Although the shape, from a silver original of the 1730s and onward, was made in creamware originally in the third quarter of the 18th century, it continued to be produced in the 19th century, as indicated by its appearance in Wedgwood's '1817' Catalogue, where it is illustrated in pl. 21 as shape number 317, available in two sizes, see Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, (1989), Volume 2, p. 417, pl. 646.Condition: The feet with tiny chips and some discoloration, and the rim with very minor abrasion.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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