Vintage Salt Canister for Hanging

Black-on-gold tole lamp is decorated with engravings of doubly repeated Chinese figures in a fantasy garden, as well as bands of Greek Revival motif top and bottom. Lamp sits on black wood base. Height dimension includes harp. Electrified for regular US bulbs. Label reads "Frederick Cooper Lamps...

Early 20th century French tapestry makes a wonderful wall decoration.

Add style to your dining table with these vintage Italian salt shaker and matching pepper grinder are silver plate with wood liners to prevent corrosion. ...

The small vintage silver plated canister or storage box has a fully hinged lid.

The condition is very good. It is very hard to find these storage canisters is such fine condition.

This beautiful porcelain ceramic decorative lidded jar for sauce hollandaise canister is surrounded with cream and green asparagus spears. It was made by hand in the city of Basano, ...

A stunning antique Minton Majolica pottery figure of a boy holding a basket, probably for salt, and dating from around 1879. The figure stands raised on a rounded rockwork base with a tree stump with the boy leaning on the stump and dressed in period costume with a jacket and knee length shorts and wearing a rounded hat with ribbon. He holds a basket in front of him and is hand painted in naturalistic Majolica colors in typical yellows, greens, blues, browns and natural skin tones. The base has stamped Minton marks to the rim along with date marks with the inner base decorated in typical Minton turquoise...

Prattware English Pottery Pearlware Tea Canister, Macaroni Figures, Possibly Bankfoot Pottery, Prestonpans. Scotland, Circa 1790-1800. The pearlware pottery tea caddy is decorated with "Macaroni" figures. On one side is depicted a gentleman wearing an exaggeratedly high wig with his servant standing beside him. On the other side is a similarly caricatured lady and her servant. The caddy was possibly made in Scotland at Prestonpans where plaster of Paris moulds were recovered during excavations. Plaster of Paris moulds recovered during excavations below the floor of the Belfield Pottery in Prestonpans and almost certainly dumped from the earlier Bankfoot pottery. Dimensions: 5 1/8 inches high x 3-1/4 inches wide x 2 inches deep. Condition: Good with a small firing line to the foot-see photo. The figures depicted on the tea caddy are modelled in very full relief and painted in green and brown. The narrow sides of the tea caddy are painted with a flowering vine. In the canted corners of the caddy is a stylized underglaze blue leaf. During the 18th century, "macaroni" was the satirical term for men who sported elaborate clothing and continental affectations. Lampooning various occupations and specific styles, these are reproductions of period cartoons. These amusing figures are after English caricatures produced between 1765 and 1790. The satirical jibes were directed at the young moderns of the time, known as "macaronies." A group of privileged young Englishmen adopted styles and manners they had admired during their travels in Italy and France. They formed the Macaroni Club (macaroni being virtually unknown in England at the time), an eating club where they vied with one another in matters of dress and manners. Extremes developed and soon spread into larger society. With ribbon-and-lace festooned clothing, prim-verging-on-prissy manners and absurd coiffures, macaronies (both male and female) were subjects of ridicule. Provenance: Private Maine Collection Reference: Haggarty, G 2010 ‘The Belfield Pottery Production Site Ceramic Resource Disk: The Northern Ceramic Society Journal Vol 26 (2009-10), 142-3 + CD ROM. Pratt Ware: English and Scottish Relief Decorated and Underglaze Coloured Earthenware, 1780-1840, John and Griselda Lewis, Page 234. Earle: The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire...