Three German stoneware salts,
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Three German stoneware salts, 17th and 18th century
Comprising two Westerwald salts with blue dashes and moulded birds perched on scrollwork and a square Cologne stoneware salt with pierced trelliswork sides and a single applied bird on each side, the pair 8.5cm and the single salt 9cm (3)
Estimate:
£1,000 - 1,500
€1,200 - 1,800
US$ 1,500 - 2,300

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    one of the salts with a label for V and V Dealers in Fine Art, Belgium;
    Collection De Rijk, the Netherlands

    Literature:
    The large white Westerwald salt is published in W.P. Gerritsen, Het Zoutvat, allerdaags en bijzonder (2004), p. 24.

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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