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Salt cellar

Year no later than 1622
Medium Silver-gilt; cast, turned, engraved, finely punched with dots and slightly raised in relief
Dimensions 31 x 17.5 cm 12 1/4 x 6 7/8 in Weight: 2.457 kg
Signed and dated Peru School, Vice-Regency of Peru, 17th century. Mark, repeated twice at the base of the cylindrical body: royal crown inside a pearled circle

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Provenance

Recovered from the shipwrecked Spanish Galleon <i>Nuestra Señora de Atocha.</i>

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