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Pair of Trencher Salt Cellars

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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
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts 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. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson Esq.
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Title: Pair of Trencher Salt Cellars
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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.

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