S/5169 Antique Treen Pear Wood Salt or Spice Shaker
A most attractive pear wood salt or spice shaker, having a screw top with five apertures that unscrews for filling purposes. The bulbous body is raised on a shallow angled foot and the whole has an excellent colour and patination.
Ex Deeley Collection and illustrated in A History of Cooking Through the Ages by Robert Deeley and Philip Drury on page 265.
Sold
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.,) High
2¼ in. (6 cm.) Diameter
French Circa 1800