Historic silver of the Colonies and its makers (1917)
Bigelow, Francis Hill, 1859-1933 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 289
258 Historic Silver of the Colonies of furniture by the brothers Adam. The shapeswere usually oval or circular and the feet were ofvarious designs. An oval saltcellar (Illus. 161)made by Richard Mills is one of a set of four,with the London date-letter for 1766-67, belong-ing to Mr. Philip… … 162. Caleb Swan ? H. 2i in. on furniture made in the second half of theeighteenth century. This variety of Englishsaltcellar seems never to have been made inthe Colonies — very probably for the reasonthat similar less expensive salts of Sheffield platefound a ready sale here, if we may judge…
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