Pair Victorian Commemorative Silver Salters' Company Master Salts

A fine quality pair of Victorian silver Master Salts made in the form of the Salters' Livery Company Master Salt with their applied Coat of Arms, the bases also applied with the cypher of Queen Victoria and dated 1837-1897, silver gilt interiors.

By James Garrard, London, 1897.

Commissioned by The Worshipful Company of Salters to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, the distinctive hexagonal baluster shape based on the Foxe Salt, a Renaissance gilded silver salt which was presented to Corpus Christi College in Oxford by its founder Dr Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester, in 1517.

Each face of the six-sided pyramidal lids are pierced with alternating trefoil and diamond designs, the foot rim and rim around the lid decorated with an ornate trefoil border in the Gothic taste.

The body of each pepper with the cast and applied arms of the Worshipful Company of Salters that were granted in 1530, Per chevron azure and gules, three covered salts argent, garnished or (On a chevron-divided ground of blue and red, three silver covered-salts, garnished in gold), the bases similarly applied with the cypher of Queen Victoria comprised of intertwined initials ‘VRI’ for ‘Victoria Regina et Imperatrix,’ flanked either side by the dates 1837 and 1897.

£1,100.00