Antique Pair German Silver Master Salts Grotto Shells Putti Dolphins Hannau 1890 Paintings no damage or restorations

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Antique Pair German Silver Master Salts Grotto Shells Putti Dolphins Hannau 1890 Paintings no damage or restorationsA 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