Salt cellar
Plymouth Factory
(active 1768–1782)
about 1770
Medium/TechniqueGlazed hard-paste porcelain
DimensionsHeight x width: 12.7 x 7.3 x 9.2 cm (5 x 2 7/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
Credit LineBenjamin Pierce Cheney Fund and Amy M. Sacker Fund
Accession number2014.1117
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
Provenance1960s, acquired by a private collector, England; about 2014, sold by the widow of this private collector to Stockspring Antiques, London; 2014, sold by Stockspring Antiques to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2014)
Zaccharias Dextra, proprietor of De Drie Vergulde Astonnekens factory
around 1725-1750
