Salt Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1786
notes: label: Description
content: Closed, oval cylindrical piercework salt on four cast claw-and-ball feet with a low bell-domed hinged lid topped by a leafy pinecone or berry finial; clear, cobalt blue glass liner. Plain or empty rectangular reserve on front of body. Flat frame on bottom. Inside of lid and bottom underside are struck with three hallmarks (those on bottom partial), two interlaced L's, a maker's mark including the initials "NN", and an imperial crown marked "86" above the script letter "P"; a small pitcher or ewer is stamped on the front edge of the lid exterior and overstruck on the interlaced L's on bottom underside.
label: Description
content: Maker is Noel Nousecourt of Paris, France; working c. 1783-1793.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Wrentham
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Anna Cornette Brastow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2216
label: catalog number
content: 60.2216
label: accession number
content: 131186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, salt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (holder material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (insert or liner material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 7.62 cm x 7.9375 cm x 6.0325 cm