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The casters of slender baluster form and the salts circular on domed bases, all spot-hammered, engraved with aquatic foliage and applied with silver, copper, and Japanese gold swimming fish, iris, and insects, marked on undersides, the pepper casters numbered 5182-3871, 314 and 315, the salt cellars numbered 4533-9458, 217 and 218, and with French import marks
27⁄8 in. (7.3 cm.) high, the pepper casters
3 oz. 12 dwt. (112 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
Historical Design, New York, 4 March 1989 (the pepper casters).
Hoffman Gampietro Antiques, New York, 25 March 1984 (the salt cellars).
The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver; Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1996, lot 18.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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