Collection Highlights
Wedding dress: yellow brocade with lace
1730-50 with several alterations into the 20th century
1949.115a
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Saltcellar
Object name
Saltcellar
Date
1855
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. ( 7 x 11.4 x 5.4 cm )
Silver Weight: 2 oz (troy) 4 dwt (68 g)
Description
Wrought silver presentation saltcellar; oval bowl raised to points at each end seated on a high oval pedestal foot with a beaded band around the rim; repouss
Credit Line
Gift of the Honorable Perry Belmont
Object Number
1936.31
Marks
engraved: on the bowl: "M. C. P." in gothic script
stamped: on the base: "W. G. & S" in a rectangle over "W/ G/ &/ S" in an oval over "1/ 55/ 8" in a diamond
Gallery Label
On December 28, 1855, the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants of New York presented Commodore Matthew Calbraith perry with a 381-piece silver dinner service in acknowledgement of his successful negotiation of a treaty with Japan in 1854. In the letter of presentation the committee remarked, "To have brought this secluded Empire, into the intercourse of nations; is an achievement which may justly be ranked, among the greatest events of the age..."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.