A pair of Dutch silver salt cellars
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A pair of Dutch silver salt cellars

MARK OF JAN DE GREBBER, AMSTERDAM, 1651

Closed16 December 2010

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A pair of Dutch silver salt cellars
Mark of Jan de Grebber, Amsterdam, 1651
Each on an oval foot embossed and chased with shells and a tortoise supporting a detachable figure of a cherub holding a shell in one hand and a fish in the other, surmounted by a detachable auricular cast fish-shaped basin applied with sea-snails, a dolphin's head and winged grotesque masks, marked on footrim
19 cm. high
614 gr. (2)

Specialist note

Another work by this maker is illustrated in J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver- Embossed Ecclesiastical and Secular Plate from the Renaissance until the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 4, The Hague, 1961, p. 67, plate 64.