Footed Salt Cellar

1715 or 1716

Edward Robinson II, Artist Thomas Phipps, Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Footed Salt Cellar

Artwork Date 1715 or 1716

Makers Edward Robinson II (Artist) English Thomas Phipps (Artist) English

Medium Silver, gilt, and tortoiseshell

Dimensions Overall: 3 1/8 × 2 5/8 × 2 inches (7.9 × 6.7 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Silver

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Jacob Douglas Houghton

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 53.342

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Marks Marked, engraved with script initals: HPH [for Sir Henry Philip Hoghton, 7th Baronet De Hoghton of Hoghton Tower, County Landcaster, who died in 1835 and the crest of a bull for the De Hoghton family of Lancashire] Marked, makers and date marks.

Provenance

Sir Henry Philip Houghton [died 1935], 7th Baronet De Houghton of Houghton Tower, County Landcaster

Fisher M. Rice, Esq.

Jacob Houghton [1777-1861] (Fredoma, New York, USA)

Douglass Houghton [1809-1845] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Jacob Houghton [Superintendent at detroit Water works from 1853 to 1861] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Jacob Douglass Houghton

1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Thomas Phipps; Edward Robinson II, Footed Salt Cellar, 1715 or 1716, silver, gilt, and tortoiseshell. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Jacob Douglas Houghton, 53.342.