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Architectural salt
Architectural salt

Architectural salt

Affable Partridge (English, active 1554–1579)
1577–78
Object PlaceLondon, England
Medium/TechniqueSilver gilt, rock crystal
DimensionsH. 17.9 (7 1/16 in.); W. 7.6 cm (3 in.); Weight 345.9 gm (11 oz 2 dwt)
Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour
Accession number51.1618a-b
On View
On view
ClassificationsSilver
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InscriptionsEngraved on underside of flange, LONDON 1577ProvenanceDecember 11, 1902, sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 62, to Crichton Brothers, London. By 1903, John Augustus Holmes, Renfrewshire, Scotland. John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute (1881–1932); How, Edinburgh; 1951, sold by How to the MFA for $14,112.50. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)