Facon de Venise Spanish Salt Without Top

71E Facon de Venise Spanish Footed Salero

of The Allaire Collection

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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: 17^th C

Ref: Fragil Transparencia, 2011 #84 & 85 see below

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Picture from: Hans van der Weijden #100 is like our 71E with the lid

 

This example is from the book:  Fragil Transparencia Vidrios espanoles de los siglos XVI a XVIII, Jean-Paul Philippart 2011

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Also see  SPANISH GLASS FOUND IN THE BOOK FRAGIL TRANSPARENCIA (active link)