Antique Pair German Silver Master Salts Grotto Shells Putti Dolphins Hannau 1890 Decorative Arts The columns are tapered and

The columns are tapered and are raised on four feet with acanthus leaf decoration

A highly important late 18th century antique Neoclassical Russian rosewood

he made a sketching trip to Venice

surrounded by brightly colored moths or butterflies

During an engagement at Courcy - Brimont

Antique Pair German Silver Master Salts Grotto Shells Putti Dolphins Hannau 1890 Decorative Arts The columns are tapered andA Beautiful Pair of antique solid silver "Grotto" style Rococo Revival master table salt cellars, Hannau, Germany, circa 1890. These very elegant cellars have a putti figure riding atop a dolphin, the bowl to the top modeled as a shell, each bowl retains their original scalloped glass liners. The stems modeled as a dolphin with their tails holding the bowl, below a putti is riding the dolphin and is raised on a corresponding inverted shell. Both salts