Salt and Spoon
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Porcelain
DATES
late 19th century
DIMENSIONS
Salt: 2 x 3 x 1 3/4 in. (5.1 x 7.6 x 4.4 cm)
Spoon: 1/4 x 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (0.6 x 1.9 x 8.6 cm)
MARKINGS
Salt: Co. logo printed in brown with words' Belleek' and 'Willets'; unidentified hand-made mark in brown.
ACCESSION NUMBER
1999.152.72a-b
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Salt (a) and spoon (b), ivory-bodied porcelain with Belleek body, the salt formed as a swan, its long neck bent, head down with bill touching breast, its finely delineated wings forming the ruffled rim; the spoon formed as a shovel with forked handle.
Condition: Very Good
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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