A rare Chelsea crayfish salt c.1752-55, probably modelled...
A rare Chelsea crayfish salt c.1752-55, probably modelled by Nicholas Sprimont with a large crayfish crawling over rocks encrusted with a variety of shells and seaweed, before a large single shell applied with further small shells, red anchor mark, some restoration, 7.3cm high. Nicholas Sprimont made this design in silver around 1742-43, transferring it into porcelain after 1745. It probably derives from a print after the French goldsmith Meissonnier.
View it on
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
A rare Chelsea crayfish salt c.1752-55, probably modelled by Nicholas Sprimont with a large crayfish crawling over rocks encrusted with a variety of shells and seaweed, before a large single shell applied with further small shells, red anchor mark, some restoration, 7.3cm high. Nicholas Sprimont made this design in silver around 1742-43, transferring it into porcelain after 1745. It probably derives from a print after the French goldsmith Meissonnier.
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
