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Pedestal-form with small round shallow bowl above short tapered stem on curved round base with bottom edge flattened to form hexagonal edge. Incised turnings on stem and base. Hollow underside.
saltcellars
casting (process)
pewter (tin alloy)
turning (shaping process)
tin (metal)
Pewter
Slip Cast
Turned
Saltcellar
Stamped touchmarks on bottom underside: IM [symbol] [symbol]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/2 x 3 x 3 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.603.1
------------. "Ceramic Chinoiserie," Antiques Magazine, August 1941,. [No Publisher].
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