Salt Dish Holder
date: label: date made
content: 1880-1918
notes: label: Description
content: Open, oval cylindrical piercework frame or holder for a salt cellar or dish consisting of a seamed, stamped and pierced gallery featuring four laurel leaf swags suspended against vertical flutes between scrolled pilasters on four cast acanthus-covered ball feet. Sides bent perpendicular at bottom to create small ledge. Bottom underside struck with four marks between two legs, "WMFN" in incuse italic sans serif letters, upper eyelid motif in rounded rectangle, the incuse numerals "/IO", and "as" in an incuse lowercase typescript font.
label: Description
content: Maker is Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik ("Metalware Factory of Wurttemberg") in Geislingen an der Steige, Germany; founded as Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer, changed name to WMF in 1880.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Baden-Württemberg, Geislingen an der Steige
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0918.11
label: accession number
content: 1977.0918
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0918.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: holder, salt dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 7.3025 cm x 4.7625 cm