Antique Pair German Silver Master Salts Grotto Shells Putti Dolphins Hannau 1890 Decorative Arts A highly important late 18th

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Antique Pair German Silver Master Salts Grotto Shells Putti Dolphins Hannau 1890 Decorative Arts A highly important late 18thA 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