SALT CHAIR FROM A BACHELOR SET
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Designed like peasant chair, seat lifting up to hold salt. Base has bands of niello on a stippled ground. Back of chair from front is decorated with openings and only the rear is decorated with niello.
- Object name:
- SALT CHAIR FROM A BACHELOR SET
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello -- steel
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1860
- Size:
- 7.6 cm (3 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.113.1
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK; INSCRIPTION on base: St. George and the Dragon, ?/1860, 84, Sazikov in Cyrillic, Imperial Eagle; Without Salt, without bread, a dinner is only half complete
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973