Saltcellar
Unknown
1736–95 · Porcelain · The American Wing
Chinese export porcelain was one of the luxuries deemed essential to a well-appointed eighteenth-century house. Until 1784, when direct trade began between China and America, Chinese porcelain came to the colonies by way of Europe. This saltcellar was part of a large service that descended in the Verplanck family of New York.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1736–95
- Medium
- Porcelain
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Bayard Verplanck, 1940
