Facon de Venise Spanish Salt Without Top
71E Facon de Venise Spanish Footed Salero
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Description: A small Spanish Facon de Venise footed salt possibly Catalonia, of straw-tint. The bowl is straight-sided with rounded base applied with six scroll handles of alternating blue and straw tint, above a spreading foot with bulbous collar and folded rim. The salt did have a second container which set on the bowl like a lid. Thanks to Hans van der Weijden’s for his comment and also for sending a picture. We now know, and are able to show an example with the top container. It was used for holding and sprinkling pepper. See examples below. The glass shown is a salt with the pepper container on top is from the Museum for Decorative Arts in Barcelona, Spain.
Size: H: 8.7cm, 3 3/8 inches
Date: 17th C
Ref: Fragil Transparencia, 2011 #84 & 85 see below
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This example is from the book: Fragil Transparencia Vidrios espanoles de los siglos XVI a XVIII, Jean-Paul Philippart 2011
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Amazing!
Wonderful. Just so interesting and the mix of the base item with the splashing blue! Fantastic. Love seeing these posts every day!!!