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Crayfish Salt
Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain Crayfish Salt, moulded, and painted naturalistically in enamels
Soft-paste porcelain Crayfish Salt, moulded and painted in red, yellow, green, brown and black enamels. The salt is formed of a deep open, oval shell, resting on a rocky mound base modelled with seaweed, and applied with crustacea, a large naturalistic crayfish flanking the shell. The whole is painted in naturalistic colours.
History note: Dr Bellamy Gardner collection; sold Sotheby’s, 12 June 1941, Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Chelsea Porcelain, English Ceramics and Enamels, the property of Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner, lot 4
Given by the National Art Collections Fund as Trustee of the R S Cochrane Fund
Height: 7 cm
Height: 2 3/4 in
Width: 11.5 cm
Width: 4 1/2 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1941-06-12) by National Art Collections Fund
18th Century, Mid
George II
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
Circa
1752
-
1755
The form of this salt is similar to a pair of silver-gilt crayfish salts in the Royal Collection which were made by Nicholas Sprimont and bear date letters for 1742-3. These were probably inspired by a design by the French architect and Dessinateur du Roy, Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750), which was reproduced in a large set of prints after Meissonnier titled 'Livre de Legumes', published by Jacques Chéreau (fol. 72, pl. 15, after 1534).
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, brown and black)
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and painted overglaze in red, yellow, green, brown, and black enamels
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: a red anchor
Accession number: EC.23-1941
Primary reference Number: 131181
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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