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One of a pair of salt cellars
Designer:
Spencer, Edward (designer)
Silversmith:
Artificers' Guild Ltd.
Silver, low circular bowl with thread-edged border; standing on a fluted knop above a slightly domed circular foot with milled edge (with M/P.3-1941)
History note: Purchased from the East Gate Gallery, Oxford by by Ernest Marsh (1863-1945) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Pottery and Crafts Fund, 1939; presented to The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 20 November 1941
Given by the Contemporary Art Society, 1941
Height: 5 cm
Weight: 88 g
Width: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1941) by Contemporary Art Society
20th Century, second quarter
George V
1934
-
1935
Bowl And Foot
Inscription present: gothic lower case
Accession number: M/P.2-1941
Primary reference Number: 157574
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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