Pair of Trencher Salt Cellars

Artists

Description

Of plain domed circular form, the sides engraved with a crest of a seated lion, under one of its front paws a cross, the bases engraved RB

Dimensions

6.99 cm (2 3/4 in.) unspecified: 113.4 g

Provenance

Private Collector, London, Sold at Christie's London, 1933. Anonymous sale, where the work was lot 146 Private Collector, London, England, 1939, Sold at Christie's London, 1939. Anonymous sale, where the work was lot 115 Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.