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Salt bowl

Between 1772 and 1782

Tallinn City Museum

Tallinn City Museum
Tallinn, Estonia

Until the triumph of porcelain, dinnerware sets were made of silver or gold. This salt bowl with two depressions and inward curling feet (broken) was made after a silver salt bowl. The sides of the bowl are decorated by four green embossed caterpillar ornaments; small tulip and cornflower blossoms have been painted on the bottoms of the depressions.
Faience, on-glaze painting, height 4 cm, length 14 cm. Unsigned.

Produced by Carl Christian Fick's faience factory (Revalische Vagance-Porcelain Fabrick) that operated in Tallinn from 1772 to 1782.

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