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Salt cellar
Salt cellar, pale buff coloured earthenware, standing on a spreading short pedestalled foot, the body with a rounded bottom, short cylindrical sides and everted rim, the rim very chipped; covered all over with a greyish-white tin glaze which has flaked off in several places, to one side of the body is painted in blue a design of scrolling lines and a stylized flower head.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34649
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 17th century
Acquisition
Purchase, 23/2/1915
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.4
diam
(cm): 5.3
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 2
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
in-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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