Pepper Shaker, Columnesque Pattern
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Silver and plastic
DATES
1950–1954
DIMENSIONS
height: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); diameter: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
MARKINGS
Impressed on outside at base of silver top: "TOWLE STERLING 12"; Molded on top of black plastic base: "PAT. No / [inscribed in a square] LC / 2549404"
ACCESSION NUMBER
2004.12.7a-b
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Jewel Stern
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Finely ribbed cylindrical short thin shaker on finely ribbed cylindrical black plastic base. Flat top with nine holes arranged in a circle toward edge. Base is approximately ½ inch tall when removed from shaker. Two-thirds of base is slightly smaller in diameter than silver shaker top it fits within. One-third of base visible when it is inserted in top, this portion finely ribbed like silver top.
Condition: Very good.
MUSEUM LOCATION
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