First Period Dr Wall Worcester Triple Shell Salt, Circa 1765-68
Diameter 6 1/2 Ins
Item No. 1806
An extremely rare First Period Dr Wall Worcester Triple Shell Salt or Sweetmeat of ‘the silver taste’, modelled after J.A.Meissonier. The three shells supported on a series of shell encrusted...
An extremely rare First Period Dr Wall Worcester Triple Shell Salt or Sweetmeat of ‘the silver taste’, modelled after J.A.Meissonier. The three shells supported on a series of shell encrusted bases, surmounted with a coral.
See Paul Crane, ‘A Question of Attribution’, ECC Transactions Vol. 27 p. 33 for a discussion of this pieces and the original Meissonier design engraved by Gabriel Huquier