Salt

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ca. 1740

Boston, 1705 - 1762

Salts were first produced in the colonies as shallow bowls for individual use at the table. Gilded interiors and glass liners protected silver from salt’s corrosive properties. Always a precious commodity, it was not until the nineteenth century that salt extraction became a domestic industry in America.

Silver

Approx. 5 in. (12.7 cm)

Gift of Ruth J. Nutt

2014.24.17

Provenance: Jonathan Trace, July 31, 1979

Not currently on view

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